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Decorated knife and probe in double sheath, provenance unknown, 1701-1920

Decorated knife and probe in double sheath

Surgery

1701-1920

Medicine chest, mahogany, with 15 glass bottles (11 labelled), a box of spermaceti ointment, and a set of weights, probably Welsh, c1850

Medicine chest, mahogany, with 15 glass bottles (1

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1851-1890

Medicine chest, mahogany, containing sixteen glass bottles (10 labelled) with mixing and measuring equipment, c1840

Medicine chest, mahogany, containing sixteen glass

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1820-1850

Dental key, single bend, swivelling claw, steel with brass handle, Europe, 1780-1830

Dental key, single bend, swivelling claw, steel wi

Dentistry

1780-1830

Dental key, single bend with swivellng claw, steel with brass handle, Europe, 1801-1860

Dental key, single bend with swivellng claw, steel

Dentistry

1801-1860

Medicine chest, mahogany, with contents - 17 glass bottles, 15 labelled, 3 boxes for drugs, glass pestle and mortar, glass measuring cylinder, packet of bandage, safety pin, scales and 10 weights, contents from Glasgow. c1850

Medicine chest containing glass bottles and equipment

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1831-1870

Medicine chest, mohogany, with 18 glass bottles, 17 labelled from suppliers in Edinburgh, glass pill tile, 2 boxes of ointment, glass pestle and mortar, 2 packets of drugs, litmus paper, 1 box with 6 weights and 12 other weights, Scottish, c1850

Medicine chest, mohogany, with 18 glass bottles, 1

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1831-1870

Magnifier with sixteen cells for samples, Dutch, early 18th century

Magnifier with sixteen cells for samples, Dutch, e

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1700-1750

Medicine chest, mahogany, containing 20 glass bottles, 9 labelled, with 2 by the firm of Hooper, London, c1910, chest earlier, English, c1860

Medicine chest, mahogany, containing 20 glass bott

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1851-1880

Cabinet, oali, probably English, containing solution of bottles, probably Swiss, 1601-1750

Cabinet, oali, probably English, containing soluti

Pharmacy-ware

1601-1750

Medecine chest, mahogany, winged front, with 17 glass bottles with cuckoo labels, interesting bottle trays on top of drawer, 4 weights spare stopper, glass rod, pipette, 2 confection glasses and 3 ointment boxes of lead, English, c1830

Medecine chest, mahogany, winged front, with 17 gl

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1801-1850

Medicine chest, mahogany with 17 glass bottles from T.J. Orton of Leamington, 16 labelled with drugs by Savory and Moore, 2 ointment pots, scales and leach cage and tube, mid 19th century

Medicine chest, mahogany with 17 glass bottles fro

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1831-1870

Drawer with compartments for senna and flaky manna, empty, Nos.50&51

Drawer with compartments

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

Medicine chest, mahogany, almost complete, contents including 16 unlabelled glass bottles, 4 boxes, 1 containing 6 weights, weights, scales, key spatula, 2 cork stoppers, glass pestle and mortar, glass fluid measure, first half of the 19th century

Medicine chest, mahogany, almost complete, content

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1801-1850

Dental descaler, steel with embosed rivitted brass handle, ivory panels, Europe, 1790-1850

Dental descaler, steel with embosed rivitted brass

Dentistry

1790-1850

Dental key, single bend, swivelling claw, steel with brass handle, Europe, 1820-1860

Dental key, single bend, swivelling claw, steel wi

Dentistry

1820-1860

Cautery, probably of Far Eastern origin, decorated with mother of pearl inlay on handle, possibly brass shank, the rest, wood and brass

Cautery, probably of Far Eastern origin, decorated

Surgery

Medicine chest, mahogany, with 10 glass bottles, all labelled, 1 loose paper cover, and four boxes for drugs, contents from suppliers in Edinburgh, second half 19th century

Medicine chest, mahogany, with 10 glass bottles, a

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1851-1900

Medicine chest with full set of 17 glass bottles, 13 labelled, glass pestle and mortar, glass fluid measure, 2 glass beakers, 2 pill boxes, 1 labelled, scales, 18 weights, 3 loose labels, one order of service, c1850

Medicine chest with full set of 17 glass bottles,

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1831-1870

Medicine chest, veneer, with full set of twelve bottles, (9 labelled) and other contents, from Betnet, and Tylee of Bath, c1860

Medicine chest, veneer, with full set of twelve bo

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1840-1900

Medicine chest, mahogany, scruffy with 11 glass bottles, 5 labelled, other contents include 2 leech tubes, c1850

Medicine chest, mahogany, scruffy with 11 glass bo

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1820-1870

Physicians cane with copper knob handle, unscrewing to reveal two sections, one containing medicine glass engraved "Big Ben", English, 1850-1900

Physicians cane with copper knob handle, unscrewin

Surgery

1850-1900

Medicine chest, mahogany, complete set of 17 glass bottles, 6 labelled, glass pill tile, 2 glass jars and a glass pestle, velvet lining, English, first half 19th century

Medicine chest, mahogany, complete set of 17 glass

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1801-1850

Physician's cane with brass knob handle, unscrewing to reveal two sections containing broken medicine glass phial both etched "Big Ben", English, 1850-1900

Physician's cane with brass knob handle, unscrewin

Surgery

1850-1900

Medicine chest containing 21 glass bottles, 6 labelled, scales and 10 weights, bottles from suppliers in London, English, mid 19th century

Medicine chest containing 21 glass bottles, 6 labe

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1840-1890

Medicine chest, mahogany, containing 13 unlabelled glass bottles, ointment pot, 2 ointment boxes (1 labelled), glass mortar and funnel, steel scales and brass pans, and 19 brass weights, probably English, c1860

Medicine chest, mahogany, containing 13 unlabelled

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1851-1880

Corkscrew, handle modelled on medieval gargoyle depicting a toothache sufferer, at Wells Cathedral, Somerset, brass, English, 1900-1940

Corkscrew, handle modelled on medieval gargoyle de

Dentistry

1900-1940

Medicine chest, mahogany, with 21 glass bottles (almost all full, mostly labelled) from Godfrey and Cooke, and full set of accessories, c1860

Medicine chest, mahogany, with 21 glass bottles (a

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

Narrow rectangular mahogany medicine chest with drawer, 8 glass bottles (6 labelled), pair of brass scales, weights missing, English, 1860-1900

Narrow rectangular mahogany medicine chest with dr

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1860-1900

Rack and pinion type lithotrite with fenestrated male proxlinal curve and distal percussion head, by Luer, Paris, c.1860

Rack and pinion type lithotrite with fenestrated m

Surgery

1801-1900

Steel and brass stylus for inscribing palm leaves, South Indian(?), 1801-1900

Stylus for inscribing palm leaves

Asian Medicine

1801-1900

Medicine chest, mahogany, with 11 glass bottles, 9 labelled, slide box with 2 labelled glass slides, box of pills, box of litmus paper, vaccinator case, surgical needle, 5 pin tongs, v-shaped glass tube, 3 pairs of forceps, scalpel, 2 spatulas, lancet, clamp, amalgam spoon, and scales, English, c1875

Medicine chest, mahogany, with 11 glass bottles, 9

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1851-1900