Ethnography and Folk Medicine
1870-1930
Jewish manuscript amulet displayed in small glass-fronted tin case, Oran, Algerian, 1870-1930
1850-1920
Horse's molar, set into metal mount with suspension ring, to cure pain and diseases of the breasts, De Mortillet Collection, from Biskra, Algerian, 1850-1920
1601-1800
Pale green oval bezoar stone from a camel, possibly Algerian, 1601-1800
Asian Medicine
1701-1925
Iron cautery with damaged wooden handle, Algerian, 1701-1925
Iron cautery with ornate brass handle, Algerian, 1701-1925
Iron trephining elevator with wooden handle, Algerian, 1701-1925
Iron cautery with twin hooked blades and wooden handle, Algerian, 1701-1925
Smoking
1880-1920
Brown pottery tobacco pipe bowl, pot shaped with ring of incised cross hatching, tapers forward at base forming pyramidal spur, tubular stem socket joining bowl at right angles, Algerian(?), 1880
1851-1940
Cautery, iron with wooden handle, from Algeria, Arabic, 1851-1940
Iron spike with wooden handle, Algerian, 1701-1925
Time Measurement
1840-1920
Water Clock, mess-tin tubular type, Algeria, 1840-1920.
1880-1930
Leather bag, pouch like, leather with red coloured leather thong as pull cord at top, once contained hashish, from Biskra, Algerian(?), 1880-1930
1880-1925
Pair of model trephining forceps, steel on short leather sling, Kabyle tribe, Algerian, 1880-1925
Trephining knife, steel, with wooden handle bound with wire, Algerian, 1701-1925
1701-1900
Iron spike with wooden handle, Algerian, 1701-1900
Dentistry
1801-1925
Dental forceps, steel, from Sidi Okbai, Algeria, 1801-1925
Photographs
ca. 1941
Silver gelatin copy print made ca.1970s. Photograph by Sir Cecil Beaton of Ouled Naïls in El Ouled, Algeria.
Public Health & Hygiene
1801-1900
Barber's shaving bowl, copper, circular, made in Algeria, 19th century
Steel ophthalmic hook with wooden handle, Algerian, 1701-1925
Iron drill with double cylindrical wooden handle, Algerian, 1701-1925
Trephining drill, iron with brass handle, Algerian, 1701-1925
Steel ophthalmic hook with damaged wooden handle, Algerian, 1701-1925
Curved steel spike with wooden handle, Algerian, 1701-1925
1901-1940
Copy of trephining elevator, steel, with wooden handle, original Algerian, 1901-1940
Iron skull elevator with wooden handle, Algerian, 1701-1925
Surgical knife, steel blade, wooden handle bound with wire, Algerian, 1701-1925
Iron trephining drill with wooden handle, Algerian, 1701-1925
1800-1910
Wooden circumcision peg clamp, Algeria, North Africa, 1800-1910
Iron cautery with wooden handle, Algerian, 1701-1925
Retractor, iron, with wooden handle, Algerian, 1701-1925
Steel spike with leather-covered handle, Algerian 1701-1925
Trephining elevator, iron blade with wooden handle, Algerian, 1701-1925
Surgical knife, steel, with wooden handle, Algerian, 1701-1925
Combined scraper and retractor, iron used in trephining, Algerian, 1701-1925
Surgical knife with decorated blade, handle missing, Algerian, 1701-1925
Steel elevator with wooden handle, used in trephining, Algerian, 1701-1925
