The Tay is the longest river in Scotland, stretching 117 miles from Ben Lui in the West, through the Highland lochs of Dochart, Lubhair and Tay, easterly through Strathtay in Scotland’s centre, on to Perth and finally ending at the mouth of the Firth of Tay.

Medical research in the modern sense only became possible here thanks to the expansion of Dundee Royal Infirmary in the 1850s.