Instruction manual and papers relating to Singer surgical stitching instrument; glass lantern slides of head sections by William Macewen; photographic negatives of slides; poem booklet from Dunbar's patient at GRI.
Mr John Dunbar (d. c. 1965), Surgeon
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- Dates of Creation1942-1946
- Physical Description5 items
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John Dunbar was a graduate of Glasgow University, graduating MB ChB in 1916. He became a Fellow of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow in 1933. He was a Consultant Surgeon at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary and the last general surgeon to have a male ward in the basement of the hospital, Ward 22. Dunbar, a larger than life character, was widely known as "the beast in the basement." He was one of the last surgeons to use a fixed bladed scalpel.
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