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Medicine: The Wellcome Galleries

Medicine: The Wellcome Galleries will completely transform the first floor of the Science Museum, creating a magnificent new home for the most significant medical collections in the world.

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Ped-O-Jet Mass Inoculation Gun

Public Health & Hygiene

1970-1975

Packet of 10 'Gold Flake' Cigarettes

Smoking

1920-1950

Penicillium Mould presented by Alexander Fleming

Biotechnology

1935

Two bifurcated needles used for smallpox vaccination

Public Health & Hygiene

1968

Contraceptive Sponge

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

1920-1960

'Merman'

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1801-1900

Molecular model of penicillin by Dorothy M Crowfoot Hodgkin, England, 1945

Biotechnology

1945

Dental Pelican for Tooth Pulling

Dentistry

1701-1800

Packet of Craven 'A' cigarettes by Carreras Ltd

Smoking

1920-1950

Packet of Ten 'Abdulla' Cigarettes

Smoking

1920-1950

Prosthetic/artificial limbs for a nine year old child

Orthopaedics

1971

Meerschaum Tobacco Pipe with Bowl in form of Human Skull

Smoking

1870-1910

Six bifurcated needles for smallpox vaccination

Public Health & Hygiene

1975-1978

Laennec's stethoscope

Clinical Diagnosis

1815-1825

Boyle-type anaesthetic machine

Anaesthesiology

1955-1965

Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

Clinical Diagnosis

1801-1830

Ampoule of Anti Gas-Gangrene Serum

Public Health & Hygiene

1934

Packet of 5 'Player's Navy Cut' cigarettes manufactured from Virgina Tobacco

Smoking

1920-1950

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

Anaesthesiology

1847-1848

Copy of a blood-grouping tile

Therapeutics

1970-1981

Coin operated toilet lock

Public Health & Hygiene

1890-1930

'Build a Better Burger' game

Nutrition & Food Technology

1984-1986

Packet of 20 'Three Castles' cigarettes

Smoking

1920-1950

Louis Pasteur’s Compound Microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1857-1865

Vessel for growing mould, used in Oxford, England, 1942

Biotechnology

1940-1944

Glass bottle of cocaine eye drops

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1901-1930

Packet of 'De Reszke Minors' Cigarettes

Smoking

1920-1950

Artificial arm, below-elbow prosthesis

Orthopaedics

1895-1904

'Prorace' cervical cap

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

1915-1925

'Jedi' helmet, used with Cryogenic Magnetic Resonance Imaging Machine

Radiomedicine

1980

Compound Microscope used by Joseph Jackson Lister

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1830-1850

Oak wood statue of St Sebastian

Classical & Medieval Medicine

1520-1530

Pasteur-Chamberland-type water filter

Public Health & Hygiene

1884-1900

Metal lice comb, 'Derbac' brand, England, 1930-1940

Public Health & Hygiene

1930-40

Carbolic steam spray used by Joseph Lister

Surgery

1866-1870

Ancient Greek Cupping Cup

Classical & Medieval Medicine

400 BCE- 100 BCE

Kendrew's original model of the myoglobin molecule

Experimental Chemistry

1957

Pedoscope X-ray apparatus

Chiropody

1930-1955

Thermoplastic radiotherapy mask

Radiomedicine

2017

Penicillin powder in bottle

Biotechnology

1942

'King’s Fund’ hospital bed

Nursing & Hospital Furnishings

1994

Cammann type binaural stethoscope

Clinical Diagnosis

1845-1855

Alan Measles - God in the time of Covid-19 by Grayson Perry

Grayson Perry

2020

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1820

Pocket watch concealed in a memento mori

Anatomy & Pathology

1700-1936

Canvas straitjacket for adults, London, England, 1930-1960

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1930-1960

Main component of Siemens ‘Elmiskop 1’ electron microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1945-1955

Radiation protection apron

Radiomedicine

1920-1958

Sunglasses with dark blue lenses

Ophthalmology

1860-1900

Wooden figure of pregnant female

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1920