Upcoming Events

November 2024

Dissecting the Author: The Story of Lobotomy with Claire Prentice

Date(s): 28 November 2024

Time: 7pm

Cost: £3

Age Restrictions: 16+

Booking Link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dissecting-the-author-the-story-of-lobotomy-with-claire-prentice-tickets-920848421417

Join this Zoom talk as we discuss the history of Lobotomy in the US and UK. In this online event Surgeons Hall Museums Human Remains Conservator Cat Irving will be joined by historian and author Claire Prentice. Claire will discuss the research behind her BBC Radio 4 documentary Easier Than Curing Tooth Ache? The Story of Lobotomy which uncovers t…

Lunch Time Talk: They put WHAT in their eyes?!

Date(s): 20 November 2024

Time: 1.15pm

Cost: £3

Booking Link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lunch-time-talk-they-put-what-in-their-eyes-tickets-1004598710787?aff=oddtdtcreator

Join Surgeons' Hall Museums for the latest addition to our bite sized lunch time talks. In this lunch time talk Museum Collections Coordinator Danielle Dray will discuss the treatments that were available for eye diseases before the discovery of antibiotics. Were herbal remedies really that effective? What good would a leech do? And why would you p…

Lunch Time Talk: Tissue Pathology from Antiquity to 21st Century Science

Date(s): 6 November 2024

Time: 1.15pm

Cost: £3

Booking Link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lunch-time-talk-tissue-pathology-from-antiquity-to-21st-century-science-tickets-1006831689687?aff=oddtdtcreator

Join Surgeons' Hall Museums this autumn for our new bite sized lunch time talks. In this lunch time talk Professor William Wallace will discuss the history of the study of tissue pathology. Pathology is the study of the effects of disease on tissues. The earliest recognition and descriptions of tissue pathology date back to the ancient Greeks and …

Scurvy and The Pathology of Exploration

Date(s): 4 November 2024

Time: 6.30pm

Cost: £3

Booking Link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/scurvy-and-the-pathology-of-exploration-tickets-1009311346407?aff=oddtdtcreator

In celebration of national pathology week we are delighted to be joined by Dr Edmund Joseph and Prof Ken Donaldson as they discuss the pathologies that blighted some of history’s most famous expeditions. Long sea voyages with large crews of hundreds of men were typical and this posed huge problems in providing nutrition over long periods at sea. T…

An Evening With Surgeons' Hall

Date(s): 1 November 2024

Time: 7pm

Cost: £15.95-£18.95

Age Restrictions: 18+

Booking Link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-evening-with-surgeons-hall-tickets-1009466209607?mc_cid=cdf0be4c3f&mc_eid=3290fdb133

Join us for this unique, adult only, after hours event in the historic Museum and Library of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. See behind the scenes and follow in the footsteps of some of history’s most famous Surgeons and visit our world-famous library. Here you will have the chance to view collections from one of the oldest and most co…