Trauma and Pathologies

Rounding off our blog posts from this years Work Experience Student is Fern. Here is what Fern had to say:

As an A-level student, planning to study Biology at University, the time spend looking at human and animal bones was excellent.

I enjoyed seeing how trauma and pathology can be identified and used to tell a story, for example a healed oblique fracture of a tibia and fibula which can be seen by the large amount of new bone growth (photo 1). Another example of this was a horse spine which had its vertebrae fused by a disease in its life causing its excessive growth (photo 2).

But bone wasn’t all about doom and death because there were several beautifully crafted bone trinkets and tools such as pins, whistles and even a dice (photo 3).

The variety I saw and worked with made this a great experience.