The Room João de Meira suggests teaching and studying life of the Medical School of Porto. Portraits, caricatures, personal and institutional objects and documents of the teachers of the Medical School of Porto. Among those, we enhance Maximiano Lemos, Joaquim Guilherme Gomes Coelho (Júlio Dinis, 1839-1870), João Dias Lebre (1829-1900), José Carlos Lopes Júnior, Júlio de Matos (1856-1922), Tiago de Almeida (1863-1936), Hernâni Monteiro (1891-1963), e Abel Salazar (1889-1946) that are represented along with students' souvenirs. From those souvenirs, we should enhance the collection of folders belonging to 5th year students of the Medicine Study embroidered with silk and hair by their brides, wives or mothers, with yellow and red ribbons or just yellow, whose ornament richness and diversity contrasts with the simplicity and homogeny of the folders that belonged to the other students. The books with the caricatures of the final year students, the academic table of events and schedule of reunions, the photographic collection and other souvenirs suggest the studying life of Porto.

In this room of the Museum, other specialties such as Dermatology, Otorhinolaryngology, Anaesthesia, Physiotherapy, Surgery, Cardiac Surgery, are exhibited, among the most represented. Referring Dermatology it is exhibited a diversified waxy mould which represents distinct skin basic injuries and a series of photos showing dermatocopic injuries that are nowadays seldom addressed to students. Otorhinolaryngology and Surgery are characterized by a wide range of materials that compose their instruments which vary from organic materials such as whale bear, ivory, tortoiseshell to metals such as silver and a variety of types of steel and plastics. We may find examples of the last materials in instruments of automatic digestive suture and laparoscopy. Most instruments of digestive suture and laparoscopy as well as others relating to Surgery, owing to the Museum, belonged to Surgery Practice Services and Surgery I. They were offered to the Museum through the means of Professor Amarante Júnior (n. 1924), Professor António Silva Leal (n. 1931), Professor Maciel Barbosa (n. 1953), Professor Silvestre Carneiro (n. 1956) and Dr. Victor Cardoso (n. 1929). There are exhibited in the Museum the instruments, devices and equipment that belonged to the Medical Practice Service, offered through the means of of Professor Tomé Ribeiro (n. 1931) and Dr. Manuela Frada (n. 1930). We enhance, among those, nº 2 of the series of the Pachon Esfigmomanometer. G. Boulitte, Paris.

An important set of instruments of Cardiac and Vascular Surgery were offered to the Museum Maximiano Lemos by its owner, Dr. António Maria Tenreiro de Morais e Castro (n. 1922).

There exist in the Museum, surgical instruments made in Portugal, some of them offered by practitioners and their relatives, others by the manufacturers and their successors. Among those the firms: Culetaria Polycarpo, Manuel Valente dos Santos and Casa Mavas, "Constantino da Costa Lopes, Eugénio Pereira, Eurocitel and Manuel Nunes Antão should be enhanced. These surgical instruments are made in Portugal since Marquês de Pombal (Marquis of Pombal) reform. In fact, Marquês de Pombal (1699-1782) by creating and stimulating Portuguese Industry, prometed and encouraged the creation of an cutlery in Bairro dos Fabricantes de Seda, Rato, Lisbon, and the trade of its articles made by the French craftsman Jacques Dutoit. In that workshop were made common use pieces of cutlery of recognized quality and variety such as pocket knives, scalpers, razors, spoons, forks, among others. The materials used in their handles were frequently saint-wood, ebony, mother-of-pearl, brass, spun gold silver, either combined or separated. In that factory were manufactured surgical instruments sold in refined pocket dressing cases, according to the age fashion. In the next century António Polycarpo Baptista distinguished himself, and won national and international awards by the high quality and innovation of the surgical instruments manufacture (Cutelaria Polycarpo, 1822). In the 20th century a growing number of traditional Portuguese factories were created: the Instituto Pasteur de Lisboa, (in the 40's), Manuel Valente dos Santos, Casa Mavas (1947), Constatino da Costa Lopes (1942). A . J. da Costa Irmão, Lda. (1953), Eugénio Pereira (1955), Manuel Nunes Antão (1956), and Eurocitel (1973).

The famous masks of Ombradane and Schimmelbush to administer, respectively, ether and chloroform, distinguished from the others with similar narcotic aims, and were widely disseminated.

Physiotherapeutic instruments and equipment distinguish from the previous of other specialties for the wide use of different forms of energy in the cure of various illnesses.