Mr Marnoch's Dressers Summer Session
AssociatedAssociated with
Sir John Marnoch
(Aberdeen, Scotland, 1867 - 1936)
PhotographerPhotographed by
Fred Hardie
AssociatedAssociated with
Jean McGregor Watt
(Stuartfield, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, 1893 - 1978)
Date1920
Object NamePhotograph
Mediumphotographic print
ClassificationsMedicine and Healthcare
Dimensions55.5 x 43cm
AcquisitionKenneth A Webster Nursing Collection.
LocationView by Appointment
Object numberABDMS083433
About MeDressers were medical students who assisted and were taught by surgeons at Aberdeen University. The illustration of Marischal College and the Royal Infirmary symbolise the hospital university connection. Sir John Marnoch was Professor of Surgery from 1909-1932. He trained in the 1880s when the development of anaesthesia and antisepsis was revolutionising surgery. A sign of this was his willingness to carry out abdominal operations something which would have been previously unthinkable. By 1908 there were some 600 abdominal operations being performed annually at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.