Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Sticking plaster

Radiation protection apron

1920-1958

Wax vanitas, Europe, 1701-1800

1701-1800

Child's bow and arrow set

1801-1900

Lancet, steel and cloth

Metal and glass microscope lamp used by Sir Alexander Fleming

Tourniquet, canvas, from Tyler's shop

1900-1940

Glass bottle

Revolving test types, in black wooden box

Wheel of Theodorus mathematical quilt

1998

Switch made from elephant hair

Amuletic bundle

1880-1920

Leather container covered entirely with cowrie shells, Nigeria, 1850-1920

1851-1920

Small skin medicine man's bag, hung with chains

1880-1910

Plaster of paris relief plaque of Galen of Pergamon

1958

Collection of rag bundles and twigs from medicine man's outfit

1880-1925

Padded splint for forearm made from bamboo strips lashed together and edged with cloth

1881-1920

Embroidered panel, Kent, England, 1930-1940

1930-1940

Wickerwork shield bound with cloth for securing round arm to protect wound or infected area

1880-1925

Flexible nozzle from vaginal syringe

1840-1920

White glazed porcelain tobacco pipe

1771-1840

Pair of ear distenders in form of a cylindrical plug

1851-1900

Cloth bag with 2 short projecting reed tubes

1880-1920

Pottery figure

Amuletic bracelet of wicker and cloth

1880-1920

Pair of warped rusty scissors with large looped handles partly bound with cloth

1880-1920

Amuletic armlet

1880-1920

Seven-fold black and white check cloth suspended on black thread

1871-1930

Amuletic necklace

1880-1920

Bundle of maize leaves said to be folded around small coloured stones

1800-1920

Two animal horns filled with "medicine" and joined

1880-1930

Three Registered Mental Nurse 3rd year student epaulettes from Oakwood Hospital (formerly Kent County Lunatic Asylum)

1950-1965

Blanket supposedly used to restrain violent inmates

1700-1940

Vaginal syringe with rubber bulb

Three spring fleam/lancets, cased, possibly Germany, 1701-1850

1701-1900

Metal temperature regulation

Ether inhaler with water bath for heating ether to facilitate evaporation

1847-1855

Cautery consisting of nail with head bent at right angles and cloth

1880-1920

Stitched leather amulet

1880-1910

Model of an Indian milkman

1900-1924

Needle holder in form of fish

1851-1920

Model of Brahmin as a religious mendicant

1900-1924

Cloth uniform badge from Oakwood hospital (formerly Kent County Lunatic Asylum)

1950-1965

Harcourt's lavement clysma duct, cased

Cherrywood tobacco pipe stem with cloth and gold braid decoration

1801-1900

Cloth bags

Tobacco pipe (Turkish or North African)

1880-1922

Two red leather amulet cases

1890-1920

Figure of man in turban with yoke

1900-1924