Field medical pannier, canvas, with leather and metal fittings, interior compartments, some with protective metal plates, contents include drug bottles, injection ampoules, dressings, bandages, splints, by Bach and Riedel, German, 1910-1918
The compact medical set was used during the First World War by the German Army. It contains a wide range of equipment needed to treat wounds such as burns and includes dressings, bandages, anaesthetics to numb pain, and sedatives such as opium. Each section of the kit is labelled in German – for example, mull translates to ‘muslin’ or ‘gauze’; verbandpackchen to ‘field dressing’.
This pannier was among large amounts of medical equipment and supplies abandoned by the German Army or captured as their troops retreated in the final months of the war.
Details
- Category:
- Emergency Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A652176
- Materials:
- canvas, fittings, iron, fittings, tin and fittings, leather
- Measurements:
-
overall: 220 mm x 360 mm x 420 mm,
- type:
- field medical pannier
Parts
Roll of elastic bandage on tin dispenser
Tube of unidentified paste
Tube, clear glass
Tube, clear glass but stained, for Sublimat, with contents, German, 1917
Two burn dressings
Seven packets of muslin dressing
Eight packets of gauze dressing
Three packets of gauze dressing
Two triangular bandages
Three glass tubes
Bottle, clear glass
Bottle, clear glass
bottle; controlled drug; opium
Bottle, clear glass
Bottle, clear glass
ampoules; controlled drug; morphine
- Materials:
- box, cardboard and ampoules, glass
- Object Number:
- A652176 Pt17
ampoules; controlled drug; morphine
- Materials:
- box, cardboard and ampoules, glass
- Object Number:
- A652176 Pt18
Box containing ten ampoules of caffeine
- Materials:
- box, cardboard and ampoules, glass
- Object Number:
- A652176 Pt19
Box containing twelve ampoules
- Materials:
- box, cardboard and ampoules, glass
- Object Number:
- A652176 Pt20
Five metal splints
Three wooden splints
Field medical pannier
- Materials:
- canvas , iron , tin (metal) and leather
- Object Number:
- A652176 Pt24
- type:
- field medical panniers