Surgeons hall museum

Today the group visited Surgeons Hall The purpose of this attraction was to show people all about the history of medicine and surgery. It is located on Nicolson's street in Edinburgh. When we were there we saw preserved brains and body parts aswell as different types of old surgical equipment. We found out they injected wax into parts of the body to show the blood vessels. We also learnt about the two friends Burke and Hare that used to dig up graves for money. It seems though that they actually did not dig graves but just went straight to murdering people and selling the bodies for money. The guide was called Thomas and was excellent. He was very clear about everything, was enthusiastic about things, knew a lot and answered all our questions. My favourite part was looking through the old 3D goggles. The things I thought were not so good were seeing all the different brains and looking at the limbs and parts of the body with cancer in them. I found this quite gory. The attraction cost £3 for under 16 and it was £5 pound for over 15's. It was well worth the money because it was good to find out things I didn't already know. It took us about an hour and a half to have a look round things. The attraction would most appeal to tourists and basically new people to Edinburgh. Afterwards we went to the festival theatre for a hot chocolate - its much better than the hot chocolate from the last café!