Surgeons' Hall Museum

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Home to the largest & most historic collection of surgical pathology in the world. Open 10am-5pm, 7 days a week.

A knife with a straight stainless steel blade and an ebony handle. It is mounted on a wooden stand.
Two pieces of stainless steel. They have a slight bend and one end is pointed.
An oval shaped cameo made of wax or enamel. Benjamin Bell has longish curly hair. The cameo is in a thick black frame.
A small pair of dentures sitting in the palm of a hand wearing a blue rubber glove.
an image for dissecting the author event for a book called Hoax by Madeleine Pelling
Poster promoting "If You Can See It You Can Be It" a representation and visibility in surgery event for medical students on Saturday 19 September, 1–4:30pm at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.
A wooden box with two metal instruments placed outside. The meal instruments are both long and thin with pointed ends. There is a black electrical cable lying beside the instruments.
Silver class medal with the Medical College for Women, Edinburgh on it
Teal gradient background with oversized black letters spelling HOAX filled by a vintage engraved woman's face. There is white text around the large letters which reads: Dissecting the author with Madeleine Pelling. Online Event. Thursday 16 July. 7pm.
Promotional collage poster for "In Her Hand" exhibition, torn-paper design with bold handwritten slogan "Go Home and Sit Still... Aye Right!", event dates 24th–29th of August, Surgeons' Hall Museum logo and credit to RCSEd Archive on green textured background.
Nickle plated object. With a long handle and a rectangular piece protruding from one end. The instrument is in a box with a piece of paper attached to the lid with a series of numbers on it.
Metal forceps. There is just one section on the upper part of the instrument which has some jagged edges,
A glass vial with some string wrapped round the neck of the bottle. The string has a wax seal hanging from it. There is a label on the bottle that reads: "fertig gestellt 19.2.91'
Black background with white text. It reads: Lunch Time Talk: Racism in Interwar Medical Archives. Thursday 9 July. 1.15pm. There is a photo of a series of photos, letters and other documents.
A rectangular green glass bottle with ribbing down the side. There is an orange rubber stopper in the top of the bottle.
A curved silver trocar and canula with an ebony handle. It is pictured next to a case with a brown velvet lining.
A set of 3 straight knives of various length. They are placed on the lid of an open wooden case with red velvet lining.
A glass tube with a considerable length of rubber tubing attached.
Dark red crescent shaped box with gold painted decoration at edges. Bottom of box is green. Metal push fastening on curved portion. Interior is lined in green velvet, and houses a mirror on the inside of the lid. Bottom contains a removable mirror in silver metal, with elongated handles tipped with a ball at each end. The engraving on the reverse reads ' Miroir odontoscopique invente par Marmont Dentiste'. A further inscription around the curved edge of the mirror reads 'Rue Nueve des Petits Champs No. 15' - possibly a makers address. Housed above the mirror is a small dental pick with twisted mid section.
A group photo of 9 people. They are standing in a Museum gallery with 'Dental Connect' banners behind them and a tv screen.
Image of an etching of the Great Windmill Street Anatomy School placed on a background made to look like old paper. There is text that reads Lunch Time Talk: The Great Windmill Street Anatomy School. Thursday 10 September. 1.15pm
Green paper ripped open to show some archival photos of the Scottish Women's Hospitals. There is a scrap of paper on top of the photos which has 'Go Home and Sit Still.... Aye Right' written on it. On the 'In Her Hand. 24th-29th August' is written on the green paper in bold handwriting.
Teal gradient background with oversized black letters spelling HOAX filled by a vintage engraved woman's face. There is white text around the large letters which reads: Dissecting the author with Madeleine Pelling. Online Event. Thursday 16 July. 7pm.
Black background with white text. It reads: Lunch Time Talk: Racism in Interwar Medical Archives. Thursday 9 July. 1.15pm. There is a photo of a series of photos, letters and other documents.
Dark blue background with white text. It reads: Surgeons' Hall Museum. New Events!
Website landing banner for Surgeons' Hall Museum with a large "Welcome to Surgeons' Hall Museum" on a dark blue panel at the left, an X‑ray of a human hand on the right.
A thin piece of metal with a slight curve in it.
A photo of a tonsil guillotine. It has a handle that resembles a handle on some scissors. The guillotine end is flat and the end is curved. There is a circular hole on one part of the flat end.
Wooden case containing 177 partial tooth sets. Each row is numbered in gold
A silver metal case. The case is open. There are 3 instruments lying out- 2 steel scalpels and one lancet saw.
A brown leather case with an oval metal plate in the middle which is engraved with Dr John Orr from Dr Affleck Roy. Inf April 1892
A set of instruments lying in front of a wooden box
Two pieces of stainless steel joined at the middle. Each end has a spherical part- at one end the spheres are smooth and the other the appear rougher.
A set of 10 metal instruments all of varying different shapes and sizes
A wooden stethoscope- it is wide and round at one end and the other end is much smaller. The ends are connected by a hollow wooden tube.
An ebony handle with a steel shaft and a copper head. The head of the instrument is rectangular.
Steel-framed saw with additional blades. It has a curved handle
A metal domed frame with a cloth placed in the middle to create a mask.. On the table next to the mask there is a brown bottle with white and blue label with Chloroform Poison. Duncan Flockhart Edinburgh written on it
Steel instruments, some with ebony handles, two with brass shafts
A long thin metal instrument with a rounded sponge at one end.
A set of ivory dentures. They are not particularly very intricate. There is a metal spring connecting the upper and bottom set
A photo of 3 bone forceps
A conical screw made from wood. It has a large handle at one end
A painting of Gertrude Herzfeld. She is sitting down and wearing her RCSEd College gown. She had short grey hair and has a pink top on under her robe.
Cylindrical tin with label, containing some amount of mustard plaster, cloth, but is sealed shut. The label is yellow and reads: "Mustard Plaster. Wet thoroughly before applying. Six Leaves"
An orange rubber bulb with a glass bulb attached at the top. Just beside the glass bulb is a large metal nozzle with a turnkey
A photo frame containing a photo of James Young Simpson. The photo is a little faded and sepia in tone. He is standing behind an empty chair with his hands on the head rest
A round piece of mesh with a metal spoke in the middle.
Archimedean drill with one bur. Two ebony hand pieces: one for holding the instrument, the other for rotating the bur.
A brown glass bottle with a metal lid.
Two stainless steel cylindrical components that fit together. One piece has a large cotton swab sticking from the bottom
A roll of bandages placed in a cylindrical glass jar.
Dark green velvet background with a picture of a curved amputation knife. Above the knife is white text which reads: Beyond the Knife. Underneath there is more text which reads:Incorporating The Barber Surgeons of Edinburgh. There are captions throughout the video to match the audio.
A banner with an etching of a skeleton to the left. There is white text to the right which reads: Free online workshops for schools. We offer a free live online version of our History of Medicine (Secondary) and Surgery in the Past (Primary) workshops. For more information about our Free Online Workshops please email c.ronan@rcsed.ac.uk
A picture of a page from the catalogue. It reads "The improved medical field panniers. For the use of Her Majesty's army. Design and supplied by Savory and Moore. There are diagrams of the field kits set up in 3 different ways. as well as what it would look like set up on a mule..
5 knives within a wooden box. 'ORTH' on each knife.
Three people standing around a glass display case with a series of objects and object labels in it.
A glass anaesthetic mask. It has a rounded chamber and is attached to a long thinner spout which connects to a glass piece that would go over the face.