Category Archives: Museological

Allbutt’s Clinical Thermometer

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Making Diagnosis Easier What was the Allbutt Clinical Thermometer? By the nineteenth century, doctors recognised the importance of recording the temperatures of patients. They had begun to link extremes of temperature with specific illnesses. Despite this, the thermometer remained an … Continue reading

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Museum training morning, 20/6/12

Last Wednesday, 20 June, Claire and Emily, museum director and curator respectively, ran an interesting and very informative training morning intended to bring us all up to the same level in areas such as collections management, artefact conservation, and the … Continue reading

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Wax Models Project

As promised, here is our main event for this term.  Please do volunteer, the idea is that it should work a bit like Hidden Histories in that everyone involved kind of specialises in their chosen object, with the end result … Continue reading

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