ABSTRACT
The hospital's medical officers were required to inspect the museum annually and to report on their inspections to the hospital's medical committee and house committee prior to the meeting of the mid-summer Court of Governors. They have significant collections of historical documents, many preserved as public records, which are open for research. In addition, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry hold large collections of pathological specimens and teaching materials: materials which demonstrate old surgical techniques, occupational and other diseases or conditions seldom seem now with advances in medical treatment. Before their merger, the medical museum collections of St. Bartholomew's and of the London developed quite separately, both collections having strengths and weaknesses, but both containing remarkable elements. As at St Bartholomew's, the pathological and anatomical museum collections built up by the Royal London Hospital were closely connected to the history of medical education at that institution.
