Events

Quacks, butchers or pioneers? Surgeons and the treatment of wounds in the Civil Wars

Thursday 23rd June 2016

Dr Stephen Rutherford, Cardiff University, will show, as part of his presentation some video footage of a shoulder of pork being cut by swords and, if a risk assessment passes muster, he will bring a couple of joints for a demonstration together with his collection of replica surgical instruments.  Richard Wiseman, a key surgeon during the Civil War, later Sergean Surgeon to Charles II, was present at the Battle of Worcester in 1651, and many of the examples he cites in his writings and on which Dr Rutherford draws are from the battle.

Time: 19:00

Place:  The Commandery, Sidbury, Worcester, WR1 2HU

Tickets (£7 (Battle of Worcester Society members £5)) are available from The Commandery

For further information.

• Contact name : The Commandery Museum
• Contact email : museum@worcestershire.gov.uk
• Contact phone : 01905 361821