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George III's Magdeburg hemispheres

King George III

1761

Empty bottle for Opium tincture tablets

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1880-1940

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

Anaesthesiology

1941-1963

Hughes microphone detector, 1865-1875

Radio Communication

1865-1875

Three traditionally made shuttlecocks of cork and

Domestic Appliances

1950-1960

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

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

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1926

Wax model of a plague scene, Europe, 1657

Classical & Medieval Medicine

1657

Cinchonine sulphate crystals, England, 1860-1910

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1860-1910

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

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1920-1940

Bottle of tetanus vaccine, Germany, 1911-1915

Public Health & Hygiene

1911-1915

Cauet artificial hand

Orthopaedics

1914-1918

Glass pharmacy storage bottle

Medical Glass-ware

1864

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

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

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1914-1918

Bottle for ‘Tabloid’ Phenobarbitone, England, 1933

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1933

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

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1900-1910

Brown glass bottle of cough mixture

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1925-1960

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

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1940-1955

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

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1916-1940

Glass bottle of penicillin powder

Biotechnology

1943

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

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1891-1950

Filter used to produce radioactive water

Laboratory Medicine

1901-1930

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

Public Health & Hygiene

Domestic Vacuum Flask, 1945-1955

Heat

1945-1955

Cupping kit, Japan, 1981-1990

Oriental Medicine

1980-1990

Norrenberg polariscope with Wheatstone's improvements

Optics

1876

'Laeyson's Odorous Powders', France, 1801-1900

Medical Glass-ware

1801-1900

Glass bottle for De Witt’s Kidney and Bladder Pills, England, 1920-1960

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1920-1960

Brown glass bottle of ‘multigland liquor’, London, England, c. 1928

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1867-1930

Nelson-type inhaler, London, England, 1870-1901

Therapeutics

1870-1901

Smallpox diagnosis kit, London, 1970-1979

Public Health & Hygiene

1970-1979

Water testing kit, England, 1920-1940

Public Health & Hygiene

1920-1940

Original laboratory sample of 'M and B 693', England, 1938

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1938

Replica apparatus for the extraction and purification of penicillin

Biotechnology

1986

Bottle of Huxley's 'Ner-Vigor', England, 1892-1943

Medical Glass-ware

1892-1943

Bottle of trichloroethylene, England, 1940-1960

Anaesthesiology

1940-1960

Mattei's electro-homeopathic treatments, Bologna, Italy, 1871-1885

Pharmacy-ware

1871-1885

Bottle of medicinal water from the 'Fountain of Youth'

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1930-1936

Model of hygienic sanitary appliance

Domestic Appliances

1895

Dewar flask marked Brighton Mental Hospital

Biotechnology

1943-1948

Quinine sulphate bottle

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1860-1910

Replica of Crick and Watson's 1953 DNA Double Helix Model

Biochemistry

1993