| Description Of Item | From the collection of Haldane Tait. Glass slides in a box labelled 'Edinburgh Slides for Dr Tait' with a sticker giving Dr Douglas Guthrie's name and address. Slides of: Edward Jenner; Sekhetenanach, Egyptian medical man 9500 BC; statue of Shen Nung, the father of medicine; Alexis St Martin; William Buchan; Edinburgh professors c1850 (as used in Comrie 'History of Scottish Medicine' p584); illustration of anatomy lesson in Bologna 1535; pointing the bone in Central Australia; wall painting of witch doctor; anatomical diagrams from Persian manuscripts; second Vesalian plate of the muscles; trephining instruments; illustration of John Bannister lecturing in Surgeon's Hall, London 1581; example of military surgery from Trajan's column; title page of The English Man's Treasure by Thomas Vicary; witch doctor of Central Africa; illustration of fly captioned Swammerdam; comparative anatomy of stomach and guts; and Bishop Dunbar's Hospital, Scotland. |