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SUMMARY:Pathology and preparations at the Great Windmill Street School - R
 ichard Bellis (University of Leeds)
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CONTACT:Edwin Rose
DESCRIPTION:Whilst William Hunter's vast collection of anatomical and path
 ological preparations has long been the subject of historical interest\, h
 ow that collection was formed and used in the everyday work of the school 
 has been understudied. The result is that historians have typically seen H
 unter's series of lectures as being consistent in format and content acros
 s his career\, and have drawn conclusions on his anatomical lectures based
  on this. However\, a comparison of his early and late career lecture seri
 es reveals a substantial expansion in the content of the lectures. I argue
  that this was the direct result of the continued collecting of preparatio
 ns\, with both the making of preparations and the finished objects themsel
 ves acting as flexible tools for teaching and research at the school. Furt
 hermore\, as the overall collection grew\, so did the opportunity to study
  pathology. The retaining of diseased parts from dissections and post-mort
 em examinations over the course of Hunter's career\, alongside his assista
 nts' collecting\, allowed a range of morbid appearances to be seen and stu
 died by them\, as well as their students. This manifested itself in two wa
 ys: lectures on disease became a distinct part of Hunter's anatomical cour
 se\, and Matthew Baillie's _Morbid Anatomy_ (1793) utilised the collection
  to draw conclusions on changes in anatomical structure brought about by d
 isease. I argue that the content of both the lectures and work by Baillie\
 , both distinct outputs of the school\, was the result of the regular prac
 tice of the school: that of making preparations.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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