Illustrated guide to the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons, England / by Arthur Keith.

  • Keith, Arthur, Sir, 1866-1955.
Date:
1910
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Credit: Illustrated guide to the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons, England / by Arthur Keith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    another diseases of the liver ; in a third, preparations illustrating the structure and mechanism of the lungs. The cards in each drawer correspond to preparations in a definite section of the Museum. The visitor can thus readily learn, before entering the Museum, the number and kind of specimens which represent any particular organ or diseases of that organ, and in which part of the museum they may be found. The two other cabinets, those which confront the index visitor as he enters Room I, are for index cards arranged 0abine alphabetically—cards which serve the same purpose for the Museum as an alphabetical index does for a book. Thus, the visitor may wish to see the various lesions of Tuberculosis ; under tuberculosis he will find a complete list of the specimens—in various parts of the Museum—which illustrate this lesion. So with Cancer or any other recognised disease. Or he may wish to know what specimens there are illustrating the diseases or structure of the horse or tiger : under their names he will find a reference to all available illustrations. On the catalogue cabinets are placed the busts of Owen, four distinguished men who have taken a part in the J^3'' foundation or development of the Museum. Sir Richard Brodie'. Owen became a member of the Museum staff when quite a young man. He was Assistant Conservator from 1827 to 1842 and Conservator (succeeding his father-in-law Win. Clift) from 1843 to 1856 when he transferred his services to the British Museum. The Rt. Hon. Thomas Henry Huxley, a member of the College, held the office of Hunterian Professor from 1863 to 1870, and drew crowded audiences to the lecture theatre of the College. Sir Benjamin C. Brodie, Bart., held the office of Hunterian Professor from 1819 to 1823, and became President of the College in 1844. Sir Joseph Ba?iks, President of the Royal Society from b 2