title: [Guild medals from the Surgeons' Guild of Amsterdam].
abstract: Between around 1620 and the end of the eighteenth century, every surgeon working in Amsterdam was presented with a guild medal on passing their surgeon's exams. These medals actually represented membership of the Surgeon's Guild of Amsterdam and could be used as proof of attendance at meetings of the Guild. From 1864 onwards surgeons also received the Hortus medal, which allowed them entry to the Hortus Medicus. Less common medals include medals for ensuring the surgeon's apprentices attended lectures, funeral medals for ensuring correct procedures regarding casket bearing duties were followed at a funeral, and medals of honour recognising services to the Guild. The collection of 17th and 18th century Amsterdam Surgeon's Guild medals numbers some 230 examples, and is the largest and most varied collection of its kind in the world. A few of the medals that have been preserved actually belonged to surgeons depicted in the famous series of group portraits. We examined who these surgeons were and what the purpose of these medals was.
authors.affiliation: * Delen van dit onderzoek werden eerder gepubliceerd in Amstelodamum (2013;100:68-86) met als titel 'Unieke erfstukken van het Amsterdamse chirurgijnsgilde, penningen van de chirurgijns die zijn afgebeeld op de beroemde reeks groepsportretten'.
authors.forename: Frank F A
authors.initials: FF
authors.lastname: IJpma
authors.forename: Chris
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Teulings
authors.forename: Thomas M
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: van Gulik
mesh_terms: D001363:Awards and Prizes; D013502:General Surgery / Q000266:history*; D049670:History, 17th Century; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D009426:Netherlands; D012955:Societies, Medical / Q000266:history*; D066231:Surgeons / Q000266:history*