Catalogue of articles contained in the Museum of Military Surgery attached to the Army Medical School at Netley.

  • Army Medical School (Great Britain). Museum of Military Surgery.
Date:
1867
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Catalogue of articles contained in the Museum of Military Surgery attached to the Army Medical School at Netley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    PREFACE. The Museum of Military Surgery at Netley is chiefly intended to afford the means of illustrating certain portions of the course of lectures on Military Surgery at the Arm}’ Medical School, more particularly those parts of the course which refer to the duties of medical officers on field service. Some parts of the collection, as, for example, those which illustrate the various methods employed for transporting sick and wounded in different parts of the world, or proposed for the purpose, and those again which exhibit different forms of surgical field equipment, seem capable of being rendered subservient to objects of usefulness beyond those to which they contribute at the Army Medical School. The opportunity of studying the qualities of a variety of forms of ambulance conveyances and equipment, placed side by side with each other, may be advantageous to medical officers in general, and at the same time may interest other branches of the military service, more especially those in which the duties of organizing, supplying, and conducting the hospital transport and hospital field equipment are placed, for I am not aware that any similar collection exists elsewhere in this country. The publication of a list of the contents of the Museum appears, therefore, to be desirable, for the double purpose of making generally known how far the collection is at present available for useful reference and comparison, and also of showing how far, and in what particular direc- tions, additions are required in order to extend the advan- tages already presented by it. The articles contained in the Military Surgery Museum are most conveniently arranged under three distinct groups, viz.: 17G69. g