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*Ancestry, a pay website, in the category Schools, Directories & Church Histories has the following databases:
**"[https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/61103/ UK, Roll of the Indian Medical Service, 1615 -1930"]. (Released October 2016). This database consists of Index records and page images from the book of the same name by D.G. Crawford, see below under [[Doctor#Lists of medical officers|Lists of medical officers]].
**[https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/61053/ "UK & Ireland, Medical Directories, 1845-1942"] (Released October 2016). These appear to be commercial publications. “Medical Directories list most practising and retired doctors in Britain and its colonies”. The main publication included is ''The Medical Directory'' (1870- 1942), (published at least some periods by J & A Churchill (or variant names) and sometimes referred to as ''Churchill's Medical Directory'') and earlier publications ''The London Medical Directory'' (1845-1846), ''The London and Provincial Medical Directory'' (1847-1869) ''The Medical Directory for Ireland'' (1852-1860), ''The Medical Directory for Scotland'' (1852-1860). Broken ranges. The 1924 edition includes Dental Surgeons, perhaps Dental Surgeons are also included in most/all? other editions.
*: As an example of the contents ''The Medical Directory for 1924 80th Annual Issue'' has sections “Abroad”, and “Naval, Military and Indian Services”, see Title page digital page 42 and [https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/61053/images/43274_263021009496_0647-00042?ssrc=&backlabel=Return Contents page, digital page 43]. "Practitioners Resident Abroad registered under the Medical Acts of Great Britain and Ireland" [https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/61053/images/43274_263021009496_0647-01713?ssrc=&backlabel=Return digital page 1714/original page 1601]. "Registered Practitioners Resident Abroad. Local List. [https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/61053/images/43274_263021009496_0647-01895?ssrc=&backlabel=Return Digital page 1896/original page 1783] Grouped according to Continent/Country. To access these links you must be signed into Ancestry.
::Available on Archive.org: ''The medical directory for Ireland'' [https://archive.org/details/b28035859_0001 1852], [https://archive.org/details/b28035859_0002 1856], [https://archive.org/details/b28035859_0003/page/n25/mode/2up 1858]; [https://archive.org/details/b28035859_0004/page/n23/mode/2up 1859], in including [https://archive.org/details/b28035859_0004/page/270/mode/2up [Regulations and conditions relating to<nowiki>]</nowiki> "Her Majesty's Indian Forces"] page 270. [https://archive.org/details/londonprovincial00unse/page/16/mode/2up ''The London & provincial medical directory for 1861''], including [https://archive.org/details/londonprovincial00unse/page/986/mode/2up "A List of registered Non-Residents"]; [https://archive.org/search?query=+title%3A%28%22The+London+and+Provincial+Medical+Directory%22%29&sort=date ''The London and Provincial Medical Directory'' at Archive.org] for 1865, 1866; [https://archive.org/search?query=%28Churchill%29+AND+title%3A%28%22The+Medical+Directory%22%29&sort=date ''The Medical Directory'' at Archive.org] for 1870, 1872,1873, 1876, 1878, 1884.
:* Also available on Ancestry [https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/33538/ "UK Medical Registers, 1859-1959"]. "This database contains annually published books listing all of the names of [UK] doctors who were licensed to practise in the United Kingdom and abroad from 1859-1959. Also included are foreign doctors who qualified in Britain. Although these books were published annually, registers have only been digitised on 4 year intervals".
*The ''British Medical Journal'' is available [http://www.bmj.com/archive/ online] from 1840 and is a source of information, particularly the obituaries. It probably has more relevance for English, rather than Scottish doctors. However, it is now only available to those who have a personal or institutional subscription. [http://www.bmj.com/search.dtl Search] the archives directly or access BMJ and other online journals through [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/ PubMed Central] (PMC is the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature). Some editions are available online at Archive.org (refer below)
