Our next public event is scheduled for the end of September, stay posted for more details!
Our sincerest thanks to all those who chose to spend their #heritageweek time with us! We love having you in our halls and sharing the stories reflected in our medical heritage collection!
And of course to @heritagecouncil.ie for organising such an amazing opportunity & platform for us to do so!
Correction: Tomorrow and Thursday! Tickets are free, but in limited numbers and registration is required.
We are looking forward to welcoming you all! Please secure your spots here:
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Details & booking link for limited tickets dropping in the early AM! 🥁 #heritageweek2025 #museumevents #heritageevents
Just a few hours to go!
#histmed #tcdmedicine #medicalhumanities #queeranatomies #queethistory #lbgtqhistory #artinmedicine #anatomy #medicalmuseum #irishhistory @tcddublin.bsky.social
Please note that this event is 18+ only.
This Friday! Join us at 6pm for a fascinating view into the hidden codes within anatomical illustration guided by author + historian of medicine Michael Sappol, and a pop up exhibit of illustrations by Irish anatomist Joseph Maclise and his contemporaries in our museum.
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In love with yesterday’s #archivefind in the @oldanatomytcd.bsky.social #medicalheritage collection. Likely a turn of the century skiagraph (early form of x-ray) of a human skull, captured at an unusual angle. Such a striking image!
This Wednesday at 9pm IST airing on TG4 in Gaeilge @tg4.bsky.social!
Tune in to learn about the life and work of Irish surgeon #DenisBurkitt and #TCDMedSchool alumn who discovered a rare form of cancer, #BurkittsLymphoma:
Mark your calendars!
All have their own stories to reveal. Like this vividly coloured and ‘be-doodled’(🤔?) copy of Cunningham’s notebook addendum to his Practical Manual of Anatomy:
Yesterday was devoted to organising part of our antique #bookcollection! Most of the volumes in it are part of a lending library the #anatomydepartment held for student use from the 1830s to the 1980s. Some belonged to former students and are heavily annotated. Others are professors’ own copies.
Links between sport-related brain injury and dementia examined in new study. Read the full article here t.ly/wvfZb
What can we learn about the future of #FOPResearch from its past?
What is #FOP ?
This Wednesday! 6- 7.30 pm IST Register here:
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A Happy Easter from us all here with this appropriately antique, but physiologically dubious 1905 postcard!
#OldAnatomy #oldAnatomyMuseum #OldAnatomyTCD #anatomyTCD #MedicalHeritage #easterGreetings #antiquePostcard #medicalHumanities #historyOfIreland #trinityCollegeDublin #dublinMuseums
The reference work can be found in its entirety courtesy of @archive.org: archive.org/details/tude...
Artwork conservation day here at the museum! Cleaning a layer of dust off this late 19th cent. watercolour painting by Marsella Irwin is time-consuming and careful work, but quite satisfying!
The artwork is one of a set of copies of drawings of ‘hysteric’ epilepsy by Paul Richer published in 1881:
The greater part of it is exhaled & is carried by the winds and clouds to distant regions, &finally they descend with rains to fertilise the earth. We thus repay our great debt to nature, and return the elements of our bodies to the common storehouse.Thus ends this strange, eventful history.” 4/4
Macartney prefaces this poem extract with these words:
“The last great event is the extinction of the systematic functions which is commonly called death. As soon as the vitality of the tissue is lost, the body becomes subject to the laws of inorganic matter.
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‘“All forms that perish, other forms supply:
(By turns we catch the vital breath and die,)
Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne
They rise, they break, and to that sea return.’ ”
At this point the pen had evidently dropped from his hand.'' (writes his biographer A. Macallister)
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#OnThisDay in 1843, Professor of Anatomy at @tcddublin.bsky.social and curator of our museum, James Macartney (b.1770) penned his last words, quoting the poem “An Essay on Man” by Alexander Pope (1688–1744): 🧵 1/4
We have one too but it's terrible condition 😭
The material it's made of (a proprietary mix of papier mâché, cork, pigment, and more) makes its conservation extremely tricky. We do want to try to save ours though! Auzoux pieces are such gems of medical model-making.
and last but not least, 6. Lantern slide showing cardiac anatomy, from a lecture given in the early 1900s.
5. Dissection of a calf heart showing the Bundle of His, prepared by Prof. Jamieson in 1932
