Hugh Macfarlane is the author of The Leaky Funnel (2003), Tribal Town (1964), A Clue for Clutha (1960), A Statistical Account of the Income and Expenditure of the Established Church in Paisley, Dissertatio medica inauguralis de cerebri concussione and , Dissertatio inauguralis, quaedam anatomica atque pathologica de diabete mellito complectens.