*) of the Surgeons' Hall Museum - the major medical museum in Scotland.
It is the headquarter of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (RCSEd) and it houses the museum, the library and the archive of the RCSEd. The museum dates from 1699 when the incorporation announced that they were making a collection of "natural and artificial curiosities".
The present Surgeons' Hall was designed by William Henry Playfair and completed in 1832.
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The Letter of Exemption
In May 1567, some 300 years before the first Geneva Convention, Mary Queen of Scots signed a letter to the surgeons of this College which enshrined the status of surgeons as non-combatants in battle.