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Brass bound mahogany case with sterilizable trays for surgical instrument set, R.A.M.C. military issue, by J. Weiss and Sons Ltd., London, 1917

Surgical instrument case

Surgery

1917

Electrical roller with turned wooden handle, rolle

Therapeutics

1880-1900

Electrical roller with 8 rotating metal rods cover

Therapeutics

1890-1900

Electrode with green wooden handle and bell-shaped

Therapeutics

1890-1900

Original enamel tin packing for Wynne's Infallible Exposure Photographic Exposure Meter, with chamois leather pouch, card of plate speeds and instruction book, marked 'June 1921'.

Wynne's Infallible Exposure Meter in silver case

Photographic Technology

1897

Politzer's Laryngoscope by Charrière, Collin & Co, Paris, 1880-1930

Clinical Diagnosis

1880-1930

Electrical vibrator

Therapeutics

1880-1900

Electrode, curved metal rod sheathed in plastic, w

Therapeutics

1890-1900

Sok-shaped electrode covered in chamois leather, e

Therapeutics

1890-1900

Prism of Thallium glass on wooden plinth, c.1870.

Optics

1865-1875

reflection diffraction grating on speculum metal,

Optics

1879

Card box containing 2 diathermy electrodes with leads, 2 other leads, 10 cautery heads, 1 cautery holder and 1 small spherical electrode head, possibly English, 1900 to 1920

Card box containing 2 diathermy electrodes with le

Therapeutics

1900-1920

Gutta percha bottle with chamois covering containing 'Tabloid' brand gr. 5 Aromatic chalk powder with opium tablets (Pulv. Cretae Aromat. Cum Opio). 118 mm x 39 mm x 39 mm, 139 g. Prepared by Burroughs, Wellcome and Co. London, 1906-1920.

Tabloid Aromatic Chalk Powder with Opium

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1906-1920

Video maintenance / cleaning kit (five parts, consisting of :1 Philips crosshead screwdriver, 1 chamois leather anti-static cloth, 1 plastic bottle of cleaning fluid, plastic wallet for cleaning bottle, plastic tool for cleaning recording heads.

Philips Video Maintenance / Cleaning Kit

Television

Gutta-percha, square based bottle with stopper covered in chamois leather. Paper label around bottle. Bottle contained in paper sleeve. To contain Tabloid brand of Opium and Lead pills. Believed to have been administered to relieve intestinal pain.

bottle; controlled drug; opium

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1906-1920

No 5 Yale Stereoscopic Pattern camera, c.1900. Plates carried in a metal carrier with changing box at back. The shutter is of the air pressure type with speeds 1/2sec to 1/100sec. Cocking rod used for time exposure. Fitted with a pair of Ross Doublet lenses 5" f.1.F.7.3. Focusing by rack and pinion. With brilliant waist-level viewfinder placed on the front panel. Wooden with black leather covering. Adams & Co c.1900

No 5 Yale Stereoscopic Pattern Camera

Photographic Technology

c.1900

Chamois leather covered metal roller; wooden handle.

Roller squeegee

Photographic Technology

1920