Museum & Herb Garret
The Thomas B. Peacock Pathology Collection at the Old Operating Theatre Museum & Herb Garret
Posted: July 18, 2024
Content Warning The following blog contains a discussion of pathology (human remains) and it includes three photos from the museum’s pathology collection. Today’s medical students are ‘digital natives’ who…
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Mrs Grieve, Anatomical Teaching Skeleton
Posted: October 30, 2022
Find out what paleo-pathologist Hannah Polasky discovered about our resident articulated skeleton, known as Mrs Grieve. Is there evidence that she had syphilis? Has the skeleton been deformed by corset-wearing?…
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Meet Mrs. Grieve, The Old Operating Theatre Museum’s Teaching Skeleton
Posted: August 11, 2022
We all want our stories to be remembered after we’re dead. It’s a part of human nature. We leave mementos of ourselves in our art, try to make a…
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Astley Cooper, Part 3: Surgeon to the King, Failing Health, and Death
Posted: May 5, 2022
Once a young radical, the middle-aged Cooper was increasingly mixing with the wealthy and aristocratic classes. In 1820, he was summoned to the new King George IV, who was suffering…
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Astley Cooper, Part 2: Accomplished Lecturer and Surgeon
Posted: May 5, 2022
In his first year as a lecturer, Cooper’s delivery had failed to engage his students and he had determined to make drastic changes to his approach. He started to use…
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