| Description Of Item | Items 1 to 10 are a collection of casts and duplicates of moulages created at the St. Louis Hospital in Paris were acquired by the Skin Department at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. Not long afterwards Edinburgh-based physician Dr Robert Cranston Low began to create casts of his own, possibly based on the French moulages (along with descriptions of the process they were made by). Low then taught the method he used to Miss Rae, a private secretary within the Skin Department and who also assisted in the infirmary. This collection consists of the casts created by Low and Rae, which are modelled on patients at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.
Precisely how many casts were originally created by Low and Rae is unknown, although this surviving collection is likely to only be a small proportion of these.
For more information on the history of these moulages, see G H Percival, 'Some aspects of the development of dermatology with special reference to the contribution of the Edinburgh Medical School' (1982), pages 217 to 220.
Item 11 is a moulage which was purchased separately from the above. |