Seventy-eighth annual meeting. Guide book.

  • British Medical Association. Annual Meeting 1910 : London, England)
Date:
1910
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Credit: Seventy-eighth annual meeting. Guide book. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    clearly in view. Amongst the collections of specimens especially noteworthy are those of diseases and injuries of the testis collected by Mr. Curling (1834-69). Dr. Ramsbotham (1854-69) added a collection of gynaecological specimens and specimens of the malformation of the fetus and monstrosities, whilst Mr. Little (1862-69) presented to the museum over 100 plaster casts illustrating the deformities of the foot, hand, and chest. The museum contains a large number of drawings and water colours illustrating diseases of the skin, which it owes chiefly to the energies of Sir Stephen Mackenzie and Sir Jonathan Hutchinson. The latter still continues to take great interest in the museum, and is one of the trustees of the Witherby Fund, which was given by the Misses Witherby for museum purposes in memory of their brother. The anatomical side of the museum chiefly consists of dissections made by students each year for the dissecting prizes, but Mr. Keith, now Conservator of the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons, during his curatorship added many beautiful anatomical and embrvological dissections. Amongst specimens of special interest are the skeleton and plaster casts of the “ Elephant Man,” added by Sir Frederick Treves ; the skeleton of the Irish Giant, articulated by Mr. Openshaw ; and the photographs of the patients by which Sir James Paget illustrated his original paper on osteitis deformans. In 1890 a catalogue of the specimens contained in the museum was printed and published, the chief bulk of the work being done by Mr. Openshaw, who was then Curator. In 1907 Mr. Keith began to recatalogue the specimens, and this work, under the direction of the present Curator, Mr. Russell Howard, is now nearly complete. The collection of the Pathological Institute comprises at present about 1,500 specimens. The specimens are put through the Kaiserling process, and are then placed in large tanks of glycerine and water. There is a card index kept of these specimens, and in this is given the reference to the record of autopsies or of specimens sent for investigation from the theatres. A special record of the autopsies for each year is kept in a book in which is entered the summary of the macroscopic changes in each organ, of the microscopic findings, and the clinical history. The record of the specimens sent for investigation from the theatres is kept in a similar manner. This collection of specimens can be examined by permission of the Director, Dr. H. M. Turnbull, or the Assistant Director. The Museum of the Middlesex Hospital. The museum of the Middlesex Hospital forms the only remaining part of the original buildings of the medical school as founded by Sir E*