Hunterian Society Exhibition - Public Opening
Friday 2nd December 2011 - 1.30 - 4.30pm
The Permanent Exhibition of the Society’s artefacts at The
London Clinic will be open to the public on Friday 2nd December
2011. No prior booking is required.
1 Park Square West
London
NW1 4LJ
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Two guided tours will take place at 2pm and 3pm; maximum of 20
in each group, first come first served.
The exhibition is not suitable for children under 12yrs of age.
No food or drink is allowed in the exhibition area.
The Collection is housed in four large cabinets as follows:
Hunter’s Family; Hunter’s Profession; A Medical Miscellany and The
Hunterian Society. The contents comprise of pictures
(including miniatures), some instruments, and other artefacts
related to John and William Hunter and their family, as well as the
Hunterian Society’s history.
http://www.hunteriansociety.org.uk/collections.html
The Hunterian Society was founded in 1819 for the education of
qualified doctors. Its founding president, Sir William Blizard,
senior surgeon at the London Hospital, was a pupil of the
eighteenth century Father of Modern Scientific Surgery, John
Hunter, after whom the Society is named. Blizard was a keen
and modernising medical educationalist,who, in 1785, founded the
first purpose built medical school attached to a London teaching
hospital,the London Hospital Medical College.
Some other artefacts belonging to the Society are on loan to the
Hunterian Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England
(Lincoln’s Inn Fields) and the Science Museum (Exhibition
Road, South Kensington).The Society’s books and manuscripts are on
permanent loan to the Wellcome Library of History of Medicine
(Euston Road).