🎅✨ Deck the Historic Halls ✨🎅 #Christmas has officially arrived at RCPI, and even our archives are feeling festive. From twinkling lights and garlands to centuries-old stories, we've sprinkled a little Christmas magic among our Victorian home 📚🎄

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Ever wondered how an object makes it from the stores to the exhibition case? Come with us as we prepare for our new upcoming exhibition 'Homesick: Domestic Medicine in Ireland, c.1760-1900', launching next week 👀 

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For #WorldDrowningPreventionDay we have selected some items from our collections that tell the history of resuscitation methods, covering 200 years from 1777 to the 1970s!

Explore more of our digital collections here https://rcpi-heritage.access.preservica.com/

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Ephraim MacDowel Cosgrave was born #OnThisDay in 1853. A physician, lecturer, RCPI President and keen photographer you can discover more about the collection of his items we hold in our online catalogue - https://tinyurl.com/EMCosgrave

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This weeks #CollectionHighlight is the Brooks Airway, which revolutionised how the delivery of artificial respiration.  Designed by Dr Morris Brook (1911-1967) in 1957 as a hygienic and accessible solution to providing mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. 

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