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A long-term approach creates impact
Working with three partner universities and a secondary school to make sure the Parasites exhibition was accurate and cutting edge and that it was also fit for purpose and suited our audiences. Parasites: Battle for Survival opened on 5 December at the National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, in partnership with...Goggins, Sophie
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2018
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The last apothecary: Eric Knott (1896–1993) and 20th-century pharmacy in Scotland
Eric Knott was the last Apothecary at the Royal Public Dispensary and the last Principal of the Duncan School of Pharmacy. He linked pre-war apothecary practice to post-war chemist dispensing. This paper tracks his career from the Duncan School of Pharmacy, transfer to Heriot-Watt College in 1936, to the close...Goggins, Sophie
Pharmacy, general practice, Dispensary, Royal Public, chemist and druggist, and apothecary
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2018
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Drawing damaged bodies: British Medical Art in the Early Twentieth century
Historians are acutely aware of the role of art in medicine. Elaborate early modern works catch our eye; technical innovations attract analysis. This paper beats a different path by examining three little-known artists in early twentieth-century Britain who deployed what may seem like an outdated method: drawing. Locating the function...Alberti, S J M M
First World War, surgery, medical illustration, wounds, and pathology
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2017
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Radiographic assessment of the skeletons of Dolly and other clones finds no abnormal osteoarthritis
Our recent report detailing the health status of cloned sheep concluded that the animals had aged normally. This is in stark contrast to reports on Dolly (first animal cloned from adult cells) whose diagnoses of osteoarthritis (OA) at 5½ years of age led to considerable scientific concern and media debate...Corr, S A ; Gardner, D S ; Langley-Hobbs, S ; Ness, M G ; Kitchener, Andrew C …
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2016
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Finding patients in the Medical Museum
Alberti, S J M M
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2014
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Material characterization and preservation guidance for a collection of prosthetic limbs developed since 1960
National Museums Scotland has collections relating to many areas of science and technology, including medical science. This paper considers technical and conservation issues of an important collection of more than 150 prosthetic limbs. Much of the collection is of prosthetics developed for children born lacking or with malformed upper limbs...Smith, Margaret J ; Kirk, Susanna ; Tate, Jim ; Cox, Darren
Bioengineering, Museum display and storage, Thalidomide, FTIR, Polymer degradation, XRF, Preservation of mixed materials, and Prosthetics
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2016
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Focus on: biomedical interactives
Phillipson, Tacye
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2016
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The history of Medical Museums in Edinburgh
Edinburgh has a wealth of medical collections, thanks not only to its role in the Enlightenment and the diaspora of graduates from the large medical school, but also to recent developments in medical heritage. Concentrating on the collections of the University of Edinburgh’s Anatomy Department and Surgeons’ Hall Museums at...Alberti, S J M M