Coming up this month at Surgeons' Hall Museums!

Full information about our events can be found on our website: bit.ly/3UlsmWP

We are looking for a name for this week's #WordOnWednesday !

This is a cannula, which can be inserted into the body to deliver or remove fluid. It is usually used in conjunction with a trocar needle.

Our lift will be undergoing some essential maintenance work on Friday the 3rd of May and as a result all levels of the museum will only be accessible by stairs.

We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

For the final #TriviaTuesday of the month we have this instrument from the early 19th century. It is made of silver and is 4.3 cm in length. Any guesses what it is?

Tourniquet's have been in use since 4th century BC. The Petit tourniquet was designed by Jean Louis Petit in 1718, who added the screw mechanism. It would have been used with a long surgical knife and bone saw during amputation to limit blood supply and reduce blood loss.

This curved trocar and cannula was used for the evacuation of the bladder per rectum is from the mid 19th century. The trocar is made of steel with an ebony handle and the cannula is made of silver.

Opium Tincture (Laudanum) is sometimes referred to as the “Aspirin of the Victorian Period.” It was a popular painkiller recommended for all sorts of ailments including coughs, rheumatism, and 'women's troubles.' This empty bottle is from the Wellcome Collection, London.

A glass and brass syringe in a velvet lined case. This syringe was owned by Alexander Wood who is credited with the invention of the hypodermic needle.

The answer to #WordOnWednesday this week is aspirin.

Although the potential dangers of asbestos were confirmed by the 1960s, asbestos continued to be used and it was not banned until near the end of the 20th century.

Join Surgeons' Hall Museums & Professor Ken Donaldson for this lunch time talk on asbestos: tinyurl.com/3w2wtzhk

You'll find our #WordOnWednesday this week in the Wohl Pathology Museum. Hopefully working this one out won't give you too much of a headache 😉

The answer this week is a suture carrier!

#TriviaTuesday

For #TriviaTuesday this week we have this instrument from the 19th century. It is 15.8 cm in length and 1.5 cm in width. Do you know what it is used for?

Cholesterol gall-stones from the gall bladder. Four of the gall-stones have fused together and one remains separate. All together they measure 10.5 cm in height, 6 cm in width and 4.5 cm in depth. They were removed by cholecystectomy.

Scotland, where have you been all my life?
History, castles, waterfalls, rainbows, hiking, scenery... and Surgeons' Hall Museums ! No photography allowed, sadly, but wow! Can't wait to tell my students about it!

Today's #Archive30 is all about #ArchiveTravel .
This is Dr George Buchanan's diary of his tour of Europe in 1850. The diary contains sketches, maps, newspaper clippings & much more. You can read it online at heritage.rcpsg.ac.uk/items/show/193

This bladder stone was 'cut by Jer. Callot from Thomas Murray at Paris, 8th May 1676' Removing bladder stones was very dangerous as surgeons had to cut into the perineum and then into the bladder. Survivors often kept the stone as a memento like this one.

Onychogryphosis, or Ram’s Horn Nail, is a condition in which there is abnormal nail growth. It causes the nail to become very overgrown, often resembling a ram’s horn, as the name suggests. You can read more about Onychogryphosis on our blog: bit.ly/2TuaGrQ