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Description: | The Anatomy Museum's strength lie in its fluid preserved specimens. These specimens provide a comprehensive record for both normal anatomical and pathological conditions that cover the range of bodily systems. These specimens date from the late 19th Century and many are the preparations by notable university alumni such as Professor Robert Reid (1851 - 1939) and Professor Lockhart (1894 - 1987). The collection includes a large number of preparations of the brain from the late 19th and 20th centuries. The preparations of the brain include dissections of specific regions, the use of blue/black staining and most are labelled. The collection also includes a specimen of a Chinese woman's bound foot, to show the disfiguring effects of feet bounding. The anatomy museum's pathological specimens include a stomach which has been preserved alongside metal foreign bodies, found inside the stomach upon dissection. These wet preparations are complemented by osteological material, historical models, medically - related scientific instruments, works on paper and archival material, held within the Anatomy museum and Special Libraries and Archives. The works on paper include a group of watercolours which can uniquely be matched to their original fluid preserved specimen prepared by Professor Robert Reid in the early 1890s. Access to, and display of, parts of the collection is restricted by the Anatomy Acts (1984) as amended by the Human Tissue (Scotland) Act 2006.
Super collection: Anatomy Museum.
Objects: head and neck; right leg, cross section at level of origin of peroneal artery; dissections of larynx; cross section right forearm below biceps tendon; brain dissected to show lower regions of temporal and occipital lobes; lower abdomen, pelvis, upper thigh; cross section of thorax; nasal cavity wall; cross section through left superior radio-ulnar point; cross section of superficial dissection of the foot; brain; dissection down to the femur; horizontal section of neck; dissection of the wrist and hand; dissection of pituitary glands; forearm below biceps tendon and one longitudinal section; dissection of facial muscles; muscles of male larynx; dissection of internal ear and auditory (pharyngo-tympanic) tube; thyroid lamina related to piriform fossa; spinal cord; heart; dissection of the cervical region of the spinal cord; hip replacement; interior of bladder and prostatic urethra; dissection of the knee; brainstem; kidneys, ureter bladder, prostate gland; horizontal cross section of trunk; dissection of the lower limb; upper limb; cross section of the medial longitudinal arch of the foot; cross section right thigh; cross section of left arm at deltoid insertion; sagittal section of thorax and abdomen of female; portion of right lung; specimen of bound foot; lung showing military tuberculosis; cross section of thorax passing through mostly abdominal structures; trigone of bladder; jejunum; portion of ileum from typhoid victim; retrocolic appendix vermiformis; terminal oesophagus, stomach, pylorus and duodenum; longitudinal section of kidney showing the pelvis of ureter; median sagittal section of female pelvis; oesophagus; colon; testicle showing tunica vaginalis; female abdomen and pelvis; lobulated kidneys from adult; horseshoe kidney; dissection of fetus. | Subjects: | Surgery Health History of Science Biological Science. | Temporal: | 1890/1964 | Source: | University of Aberdeen | Address: | King's College,
AB24 3FX | Identifier: | ABDAN:CLD11 | Relation: | ABDUA:CLD00 | Go to resource |
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