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Luke Howard's original rain guage

Meteorology

1818

George III's Magdeburg hemispheres

King George III

1761

Glass pharmacy storage bottle

Medical Glass-ware

1864

Cauet artificial hand

Orthopaedics

1914-1918

Cylindrical glass bottle of quinine sulphate

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

Empty bottle for Opium tincture tablets

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1880-1940

Glass bottle of penicillin powder

Biotechnology

1943

Filter used to produce radioactive water

Laboratory Medicine

1901-1930

Back bar for Boyle's type anaesthetic machine, London, England, 1941-1963

Anaesthesiology

1941-1963

Replica apparatus for the extraction and purification of penicillin

Biotechnology

1986

Hughes microphone detector, 1865-1875

Radio Communication

1865-1875

Bottle of medicinal water from the 'Fountain of Youth'

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1930-1936

Glass bottle of cocaine eye drops

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1901-1930

Glass flask labelled "AQ.S.FLOR.SALV"

Medical Glass-ware

1601-1800

Cylindrical glass bottle containing cinchonidine

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

Three traditionally made shuttlecocks of cork and

Domestic Appliances

1950-1960

Bottle, with contents

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

Bottle for powdered camomile

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

Mauveine acetate dye in microcrystalline form in a cork-stoppered glass bottle

Industrial Chemistry

1906

Spa water from Aachen

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1931

Bottle, with contents

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

Glass flask labelled for Water of Bird Cherry Bard

Medical Glass-ware

1601-1800

Box containing bottle of 'Tabloid' Stramonium Leaf, Australia,1939

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1939

Paquelin thermo cautery

Surgery

Pince-Nez Glasses

Ophthalmology

1880-1900

Braun's ether dropper, in original cardboard box,

Anaesthesiology

1900-1935

Achimota Highly Perfumed Hair

Industrial Chemistry

1970

Wax model of a plague scene, Europe, 1657

Classical & Medieval Medicine

1657

Brown glass bottle of phosphorus, zinc and strychnine pills, London, England, 1920-1940

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1920-1940

Cinchonine sulphate crystals, England, 1860-1910

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1860-1910

Original free sample of Bayer 205, suramin powder, Germany, 1926

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1926

Part of smallpox diagnosis kit

Public Health & Hygiene

1970-1979

Medicine chest used on Scott’s Antarctic Expedition of 1910, England, 1900-1910

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1900-1910

Glass bottle, painted with saintly figure

Medical Glass-ware

Bottle of Behring's diphtheria remedy, Germany, 1914-1918

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1914-1918

Glass display case containing various cosmetic devices from the 1700s, England, 1880-1930

Public Health & Hygiene

1701-1800

Throat swab used to diagnose diphtheria

Clinical Diagnosis

1901-1930

Picric acid from 'Tabloid' medicine chest used for a transatlantic balloon flight in 1910

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1900-1910

Pince nez spectacles

Ophthalmology

1801-1900

Bottle for ‘Tabloid’ Phenobarbitone, England, 1933

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1933

Brown glass bottle of cough mixture

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1925-1960

Bottle of tetanus vaccine, Germany, 1911-1915

Public Health & Hygiene

1911-1915

Bottle of 'Walpole' Nerve and Brain Tonic, Southampton, England, 1940-1955

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1940-1955

Bottle of iron, arsenic and digitalin tablets, London, 1916-1940

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1916-1940

Small bottle containing catgut ligatures, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1869-1875

Surgery

1869-1875

Bottle of Alertis Cordial, United States, 1901-1920

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1901-1920

Bottle of 100 anti-malarial pills, London, England, 1891-1940

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1891-1950

Four bottles of tetanus vaccine, by Sächs . Serumwerk, G.m.b.H

Public Health & Hygiene

Domestic Vacuum Flask, 1945-1955

Heat

1945-1955

Glass bottle labelled to contain the 'Blue Pill'

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1910