Surgeons' Hall: a museum in transition

Bell's collection, which he had used for teaching at Great Windmill Street School of Anatomy in London, stands out alongside two other great late 18th-century collections in Britain: those of Bell's predecessor William Hunter (given to University of Glasgow in 1797), and of John Hunter (no...

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Published in:The Lancet (British edition) 2012-09, Vol.380 (9847), p.1048-1048
Main Author: Dupree, Marguerite
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Anatomy
Collections
Internal Medicine
Pathology
Physicians
Surgeons
Surgery
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Summary:Bell's collection, which he had used for teaching at Great Windmill Street School of Anatomy in London, stands out alongside two other great late 18th-century collections in Britain: those of Bell's predecessor William Hunter (given to University of Glasgow in 1797), and of John Hunter (now so well-displayed in the Hunterian Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England). At Surgeons' Hall, Bell's collection joined 2500 specimens from the comparative anatomy collection of John Barclay, whose animal specimens the College disposed of in the 1950s (apart from the head of its famous elephant skeleton). [...]unlike the Hunterian Museum in London, human anatomy and pathology is the focus of Surgeons' Hall, which houses a pathology museum, a history of surgery museum, and a dental museum based on the excellent John Menzies Campbell collection.
ISSN:0140-6736
1474-547X
DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(12)61587-6