Object Listing

Retinoscopy is a technique to obtain an objective measurement of the refractive error of a patient's eyes. The examiner uses a retinoscope to shine light into the patient's eye and observes the reflection off the patient's retina. Material: Brass, glass. Colour: Brass, clear.

Oculist 1. a person who examines or treats people's eyes; 2. a person who examines or treats people's eyes. A measure made from steel, graduated in cm & dioptres. Material: Steel. Maker: Chesterman. Place: Sheffield, c. 1925.

Aural instrument. For division of the long process of the incus. Material: Metal. Colour: Silver, c. 1940.

For removal of foreign bodies. Material: Metal: Nickel-plated. Colour: Silver, c. 1940.

Ophthalmic use. For sutures or arteries. Material: Glass, rubber. Colour: Clear, black.

Chest contains 15 larger and 4 smaller bottles with glass stoppers. Material: Glass, tin. Colour: Clear, black. Maker: Grey & Co. Place: London, c. 1880.

A lamp that burns alcohol or other liquid fuel and is used mainly for heating in laboratory work. Material: Metal, glass. Colour: Silver and black, clear, c. 1930.

Definition of hypodermic syringe: A small syringe used with a hollow needle for injection of material into or beneath the skin, c. 1910.

For premature infants. Material: Glass, rubber. Colour: Clear, brown. Maker: John Bell & Groyden. London, c. 1935.

Instrument consists of: Wooden case, colorimeter, colorimeter tube, cleaning stick, watch glass, conversion table and instructions for use, c. 1940.

Anaesthetic apparatus. Material: Glass, leather. Colour: Clear, black, grey, c. 1935.

Accessory for urine testing. Material: Glass. Colour: Clear, c. 1935.

Aerosol spray topical, application of an aerosol spray directly on the surface of a mucous membrane, resulting in loss of nerve conduction. Material: Glass, metal, rubber. Colour: Clear, silver, red, c. 1935.

A caustic pencil (or silver nitrate stick) is a device for applying topical medication containing silver nitrate and potassium nitrate, used to chemically cauterize skin, providing hemostasis or permanently destroying unwanted tissue such as a wart or skin tag. Material: Ebony. Colour: Dark brown, c. 1915.

A simple needle holder device for maintaining the position of the trocar and cannula before performance of computed tomography (CT)- and ultrasonography-guided biopsies with a biopsy gun. Material: Ebony. Colour: Black, c. 1915.

To be used for infants. Attach catheter on one side and suck on other side. Material: Glass. Colour: Clear, c. 1930.

For use with Politzer bags. In the capsule is placed to cotton wool on which can be dropped any required volatile medicament, the vapour from which passes readily up the Eustachian tubes. Material: Plastic, rubber. Colour: Clear, black, red.

Test for detecting acetone in urine. Material: Glass. Colour: Clear. Maker: Denver Chemical Co. Place: New York, c. 1950.

A finger cot (also finger frock or finger stall, informally finger condom) is a medical device used to cover one or more fingers in situations where a full glove seems unnecessary. Like medical and rubber gloves, finger cots may be made from a variety of water-tight materials including latex, nitrile rubber, and vinyl. Material: Tin. Colour: Silver. Maker: Boots Chemists.

Instrument consists of: Wooden case (2 parts)
3 trocars and cannulas
3 blunt pilots (6 parts)
Syringe (2 parts) & extra fitting
Exploring needle
Bottle mount with 2 stopcocks & extra stopcocks
Tube containing wires
2 rubber tubes. Metal (nickel-plated), glass, wood. Colour: Silver, clear, brown. Maker: Mayer & Meltzer. Place: London, c. 1935.

(a) Black leatherette-covered case lined with red velvet
(b) Comparator
(c) Graduated tube
(d) Drop bottle
(e) Pipettes (2)
(f) Mixing rod
(g) Small bottle with stopper in container
(h) Cleaning brush, c. 1945.

In the form of a shell. Material: Porcelain. Colour: White. Maker: Grindley Hotelware. Place: England, c. 1935.

Set consists of 4 trays containing 62 instruments. Tray 1 - 24 instruments
Tray 2 - 18 instruments
Tray 3 - 11 instruments
Tray 4 - 9 instruments Material: Metal (nickel-plated). Colour: Silver Maker: H. Windler. Place: Berlin.

Peritoneoscopy is the examination of parts of the peritoneal cavity and some of its contained organs by means of alight and telescope similar to those of a cystoscope. Material: Nickel-plated, wood, rubber, glass. Colour: Silver, red, brown, clear. American Cystoscope Maker Inc. Place: New York, c. 1945.

A lithium-ion battery-supercapacitor hybrid device boosted by doubly matched capacity and kinetics of the faradaic electrodes. Material: Nickel-plated, wood, felt. Colour: Silver, brown, off-white. Maker: Gaiffe. Place: France.

Low-temperature steam with formaldehyde is used as a low-temperature sterilisation method. The process involves the use of formalin, which is vaporised into a formaldehyde gas that is admitted into the sterilisation chamber. Low-temperature steam formaldehyde sterilisation has been found effective against vegetative bacteria, mycobacteria, B. atrophaeus and G. stearothermophilus spores and Candida albicans. Known as the Alformant Lamp. Material: Copper. Colour: Copper, c. 1915.

The bronchitis kettle, typified by a long spout, was used in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to moisten the air for a sufferer of bronchitis, and was considered to make it easier to breathe for the patient. This kettle was made in a workshop at the hospital for treatment of dipthria cases. Material: Copper. Colour: Copper.

Apparatus for treating pneumothorax comprises a catheter (1, 101, 201) and a needle (12, 212) with a pointed tip (15, 215) removably received in the catheter. The catheter has a planar mount (3, 8) with an adhesive surface (9) or suture holes (8', 108') by which the catheter can be secured to the patient. A thumb pad 14 at the upper end of the needle (12, 212) enables pressure to be applied. Material: Glass, rubber, black leatherette, c. 1920.

Consists of 2 forceps with revolving collar, large bore two-way irrigating tap, telescope, washout. Material: Nickel-plated. Colour: Silver. Maker: Georg Wolf. Place: Berlin, c. 1955.

An apparatus for treating patients using electrical interferential therapy. Material: Glass, metal, plastic, leatherette. Colour: Clear, silver, black. Maker: Osborne, Garrett & Co. Place: London, c. 1950.