Charmingly macabre, the Surgeon’s Hall Museums are five centuries of medical advances and mishaps—and the anatomical flotsam and jetsam accumulated along the way. There are ostensibly three museums: the Wohl Pathology Museum, the History of Surgery Museum, and the Dental Collection, but they’re essentially three collections of the same museum. The museum dates back three centuries to 1699, but the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh was founded in 1505, making it one of the oldest surgical organizations in the world.
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