Edinburgh, Greyfriars churchyard: the tomb of James Borthwick of Stow, carved with a skeleton and surgical instruments. Photograph, 19--.

"James Borthwick's monument: Memoriae Patris Sui Jacobi Borthwick a Stow, familias de Cruixtoun, filii legitimi, Pharmacopoei celeberrimi, JB progenitus M M Q P. [To the memory of his father James Borthwick of Stow, lawful son of the family of Cruixtoun, most famous Chirurgeon-Apothecary: Mr James Borthwick, his eldest son, from a mournful mind, placed this monument. M] ". The inscription on this monument, preserved by Monteith, is not now legible; but the monument itself cannot be mistaken, with its skeleton in the centre and festooned around with surgical instruments. Dr John Gairdner, in his Historical sketch of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, has a special notice of it as remarkable. He states that Borthwick entered the Incorporation in 1645, of which he was an active member; that he was one of the Commissioners of the Scottish Parliament of 1661; that he acquired his estate of Stow; and that he died in 1676"--website of the Borthwick burials & monumental inscriptions in Scotland, accessed 28 February 2008