| Description | Six volumes containing lists, catalogues & notebooks relating to surgical instruments & apparatus; specimens and surgical notes from the Department of Surgery's 'Surgical Museum'. Includes:
'Dr Pirrie's [Dr William Pirrie] List'. This undated catalogue provides lists of various specimens, surgical instruments and apparatus;
'List of Instruments & Apparatus in Dr Pirrie's Surgical Museum ?written 16th September, 1872';
Undated notebook entitled 'Surgical Instruments & Apparatus Anatomical Preparations & Inventories';
Undated 'Catalogue of Instruments, Specimens, Diagrams & Microscope Slides' used 'in connection with the Class of Surgery';
'Catalogue of Preparations, Instruments, etc. in the Surgery Department Marischal Museum University of Aberdeen', dated c.1882 - c.1923;
and Specimen Book, 'recording the histories and facts relating to specimens placed in the Surgery museum', c.1904 - c.1932.
The six volumes indicate the continuation of the teaching of surgery during the late nineteenth to twentieth centuries, through the repetition of notes and the changes in teacher of surgery & handwriting in the volumes.
In addition, the 'Surgical Museum' series includes papers, dated 1888 - 1910, relating to Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Forbes Keith's work on lithotomies, which he performed in India. |