Object Listing

Baby's feeding bottle. Embossed on bottle: Use Nurse Margary's Feeder Do not overfeed baby, c. 1915.

Spring handle for optimal control; available with catch lock and tungsten carbide inserts, c. 1900.

A surgical suture is a medical device used to hold body tissues together after an injury or surgery. Application generally involves using a needle with an attached length of thread, c. 1930.

Sponge holding forceps used in all the aseptic procedure to clean the site using an antiseptic solution, c. 1920.

An instrument for grasping, holding firmly, or exerting traction upon objects, especially for delicate operations.

An instrument for grasping, holding firmly, or exerting traction upon objects, especially for delicate operations, c. 1920.

A small, broad two-edged surgical knife or blade with a sharp point, c. 1935.

Surgical hooks are common surgical instruments, found in most instrument sets and used for exploration and the manipulation and retraction of tissues, nerves, vessels, and bone, c. 1900.

Atraumatic needle: an eyeless surgical needle with the suture attached to a hollow end, c. 1920.

Embossed: The improved feeding bottle, c. 1850.

Dr Yankauer might best be known for the tube he designed for suctioning the mouth and throat. Yankauer introduced the wire-mesh anaesthesia mask around 1904. Material: Chromium-plated, c. 1935.

A Schimmelbusch inhaler mask frame that has been wrapped with muslin to make it fit softly and cushion the face, c. 1940.

To clip on the shelves of cabinets for hanging scissors etc. Metal (nickel-plated). Colour: Silver, c. 1915.

A pair of pins used for storing. Metal (nickel-plated). Colour: Silver, c. 1930.

The Futura safety scalpel has a precision stainless steel blade that retracts with spring retraction technology to minimise the risk of accidental cuts. Metal (chromium-plated). Colour: Silver, c. 1920.

Metal (nickel-plated). Colour: Silver, c. 1915.

A blunt-ended surgical instrument used for exploring a wound or part of the body. Porcelain bulb at end. Metal (chromium-plated). Colour: Silver, c. 1915.

A strip of flexible material with a sponge or tuft at the end, used to remove an object from or apply medication to the throat, c. 1915.

Syringe with glass barrel, hard rubber or bakelite or vulcanite fittings; leather top on plunger, leather washer between nozzle and barrel; nozzle is long and angular, olive-tipped, c. 1925.

Chloroform. (a) Black box and lid, (b) drop bottle and cap, c. 1920.

Medicine spoon (China, plain white) has markings on it to measure liquid medicine, c. 1825.

Syringe with glass barrel, hard rubber or bakelite or vulcanite fittings; leather top on plunger, leather washer between nozzle and barrel; nozzle is long and angular, olive-tipped, c. 1930.

Janet's glass syringe instruments used for bladder and flushing syringe for human applications, c. 1950.

(a) Syringe (2 parts)
(b) Rubber tubes with metal pieces (5), c. 1955.

Used for injecting duodenal testing, moistening of dressings, ear, bladder and wound treatment, in addition to irrigating and aspirating, c. 1930.

Syringe, glass, aural, with glass plunger rod with compressed cotton plunger and (loose) rubber cap, c. 1940.

Laryngeal syringe, Tobold, steel and glass, by Down of London, early 20th century, c. 1940.

The hypodermic syringe was used to give injections into the body, c. 1920.

Graeme Anderson's haemorrhoid syringe, glass and nickel-plated brass, by Allen and Hanburys, London, 1920-1940, c. 1930.

Syringe for laryngeal operations, c. 1930.