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Box with hinged lid, covered in black leatherette,

Therapeutics

1930

Apothecarys balance with steel beam and brass pans

Pharmacy-ware

1831-1870

Apothecary's balance with steel beam and brass pan

Pharmacy-ware

1701-1725

Box of assorted abrasive discs, unmounted, probabl

Dentistry

1895-1914

Battery powered auriscope, cased, owned by Dr. J.W

Clinical Diagnosis

1920-1935

Toy microscope in case, French, late 19th century

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1875-1900

Enema set by Arnold and Sons, 35-36 West Smithfiel

Therapeutics

Box of microscopical accessories, consisting set o

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1950-1965

Enema syringe by Weiss, in box by S. Maw, English,

Therapeutics

1801-1900

Apothecary's balance with steel beam and brass pan

Pharmacy-ware

1866-1900

Mackensie septum resection knife in wooden box

Surgery

1939-1945

Culdoscope

Clinical Diagnosis

1930-1960

Star finder celestial globe

Astronomy

1895-1898

Aircraft crash Accelerometer in case with spares a

Farnborough

Six tattooing needles in small wooden box, European, 1780-1860

Six tattooing needles in small wooden box, Europea

Anatomy & Pathology

1780-1860

Apothecary's scales with steel beam and brass pans

Pharmacy-ware

1750-1850

Apothecaries scales with steel beam and brass pans

Pharmacy-ware

Apothecary's balance with steel beam and glass pan

Pharmacy-ware

1831-1870

Apothecary's balance with steel beam and brass pan

Pharmacy-ware

1831-1870

Apothecary's balance with steel beam and brass pan

Pharmacy-ware

1831-1870

Loadstone, probably used for curing or prevention

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Cystoscope by the American Cystoscope Company Incorporated

Clinical Diagnosis

1940-1960

McCarthy cysto-urethroscope, modification of Brown-Buerger

Clinical Diagnosis

1930-1960

Case, red leather, for camera lucida

Optics

1835-1840

Conducting bar, iron, painted black, in open-toppe

Therapeutics

1870-1930

Box of polishing discs, fibrous, probably used in

Dentistry

1895-1914

Apothecary's balance with steel beam and brass pan

Pharmacy-ware

1701-1800

Apothecary's balance with steel beam and brass pan

Pharmacy-ware

1831-1870

Apothecary's balance with steel beam and glass pan

Pharmacy-ware

1831-1870

Apothecaries scales with steel beam and brass pans

Pharmacy-ware

1801-1900

Apothecaries scales with steel beam and brass pans

Pharmacy-ware

1801-1900

Apothecaries balance with steel beam and brass pan

Pharmacy-ware

1831-1870

Box, wood, leather covered, ostensibly for surgical instruments

Wellcome (general)

1501-1900

Set of scales with silver pans, steel beam with ov

Pharmacy-ware

1816-1820

Caset set of bronchial telescopes

Clinical Diagnosis

1931-1950

Cystoscope

Clinical Diagnosis

1930-1960

Cambridge rocking microtome knife, by Cambridge In

Microbiology

1961-1970

Syringe set by W. Matthews, 10 Portugal Street, Lincoln's Inn, London, England, 1846-1851. In case, with syringe, and 3 nozzles.

Syringe set by W. Matthews, 10 Portugal Street, Li

Therapeutics

1846-1851

Potassium bichromate battery, for a galvanic cautery, 2 multi-plate cells and rubber bulb in rectangular box, made by Charles Chardin, Paris, French, 1880-1890

Potassium bichromate battery, for a galvanic cautery

Therapeutics

1880-1890

Two bar magnets with pair of keeps in wooden box, belonging to F.W. Ogg, European, early 20th century

Two bar magnets with pair of keeps in wooden box,

Therapeutics

1901-1930

Box for cinchona bark, known as a Coracha, wood and rawhide, with contents, brought from Peru by the expedition of Ruiz and Pavon, 1777. Accompanying label reads, 'CORACHA' OF LOXA BARK OPENED, SHEWING CONTENTS AND/ METHOD OF PACKING./ ONE OF THE ORIGINAL 'CORACHAS' BROUGHT TO SPAIN/ FROM PERU BY THE EXPEDITION UNDER RUIZ AND/ PAVON SENT THERE BY CARLOS III OF SPAIN/ IN 1777./ PRESENTED BY HIS MAJESTY KING ALFONSO XIII/ OF SPAIN, 1930.

Coracha of loxa bark c. 1777

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1777-1785

Three microscope eyepieces, 3x, 5x and 6x, in wooden box, by Zeiss, German, 1890-1910

Three microscope eyepieces, 3x, 5x and 6x

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1890-1910

High power micromanipulator, Mark III, by the Singer Instrument Co. Ltd., 1950s

High Power Micromanipulator, 1950s

Laboratory Medicine

1950-1959

Ornate wooden box containing two balances, a set of weights, several tweezers and other instruments, balance stand (without contents see other parts), balance beam in two parts, Persian, 19th century.

Ornate wooden box containing two balances, a set o

Pharmacy-ware

1801-1900

Glass and vulcanite piston action syringe, with two nozzles, in original wooden box

Glass and vulcanite piston action syringe, with tw

Surgery

Painted plastic strips, showing varying skin colours, possibly for testing peripheral blood flow, with explanatory letter by the artist, probably prototype for Thomas Lewis's kit, 1926

Painted plastic strips, showing varying skin colou

Clinical Diagnosis

1926

Hindu astrolabe, silver, with linen pouch and hardwood case, unsigned, 19th century, Indian

Hindu astrolabe, 1800-1899

Astronomy

1800-1899

Set of coin scales a in a rectangular wooden box (without weights see other parts), box makers mark impressed inside, made by Matthias Mettman, a well known Cologne scalemaker, German, 1651

Coin scales

Pharmacy-ware

1651

Humby skin-grafting razor in wooden case, by Down, England

Humby skin-grafting razor in wooden case

Surgery

Linen pouch for Hindu astrolabe, silver, 19th century.

Linen pouch, for Hindu astrolabe, 1800-1899

Astronomy

1800-1899