A very cool museum in the Aberdeen city center – with salutes to famous Aberdonians. They made the first MRI scanner here! (And interestingly made their own iron lung after seeing one in America …)
Tag: Science
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More from Edinburgh – plagued
So, as we are settling into a more routine routine, to some extent – a lot of these posts will reflect a backlog. Some will even be (sort of) intersectional – where medical research meets history so to speak. This isn’t about a clinical trial – but this suit was worn by a plague doctor. The weird beak thing was a pretty intense mask (filled with lavender and other herbs to ward off the miasma – but actually pretty effectively filter out airborne Yersinia pestis). At times in my medical career I have wished for some lavender in my mask … sometimes for toxic sock syndrome / sometimes for other things.
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Dolly
Part two of our Edinburgh adventure was a trip to the National Museum Of Scotland – which is fantastic. The first mammal born cloned from adult somatic cells is on display. We didn’t start to even scratch the surface of all the interesting stuff there. (The links to social media sites only push through the first picture so go to islesandtrials.org to see more!
More realistically proportioned mannequin 
More info on body positive mannequins 
Lighthouse lens 
Advertisement “encouraging” COVID vaccination circa 2021 
The main hall 
Architect Zaha Hadid designed shoes 
Taxidermied cats, um not doing cloning…
Isles and Trials 