Asking around, it’s quite staggering how few people can recall why Joseph Lister was famous. That guy out of Red Dwarf? Country singer? For some reason, the pioneer of antiseptic and sometime Londoner seems to be fading into obscurity among the populous, while fellow medical …
Yes, you read that correctly. Our old friends at the Hunterian Museum, part of the Royal College of Surgeons, are tonight screening an English language version of the the anime ‘U-18 Knew’. The film, by Manga master Osamu Tezuka, is set in a world of …
In the third of three posts, we focus on individual exhibits from the weird and wonderful collection of our Museum of the Month – the Hunterian Museum. Our final highlight from the Hunterian Museum is this prototype clockwork saw, straight out of a horror film. …
In the second of three posts, we focus on individual exhibits from the weird and wonderful collection of our Museum of the Month – the Hunterian Museum. This item from the Hunterian collection is a human mandible showing ‘phossy jaw‘, a necrosis of the bone …
In the first of three posts, we focus on individual exhibits from the weird and wonderful collection of our Museum of the Month – the Hunterian Museum. Yes, it’s a cockerel’s head with a human tooth sticking out of the top. Surgeon John Hunter made …
London has many museums of health and medicine. Over 20, in fact. None come close in scale, prestige and sheer oddness to the Hunterian Museum, housed in the Royal College of Surgeons in Lincoln’s Inn Fields. The museum contains a collection of anatomical specimens assembled …
The belly button, perhaps one of the body’s quirkiest features, has now been deemed a ‘single access port’. Mr. Barry Paraskeva, of Imperial College London Healthcare NHS Trust, recently became the first surgeon in the UK to remove an appendix and gall bladder through that …
By J_I_M__D Fans of the ‘orrible and all things mired in historic gore, get along to the Old Operating Theatre this Saturday for a talk about the practice of medicine in the American colonies and compared to London during the same era. Historian and author …
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