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Medical instruments and apparatus

Images

  • M0013462: Apparatus used by Carlo Forlanini for artificial pneumothorax
  • A man discovering the physicist Richmann after he has been killed by a bolt of lightning. Wood engraving by O. Jahyer and L. Hotelin after P. Valentin.
  • Patients consulting an obese quack. Watercolour painting by T. Rowlandson, 1807.
  • Price list of the Veedee, fitted cases, and of extra attachments designed for special uses / The Veedee Company.
  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: a display of instruments of torture and appliances for restraint of the insane. Photograph.
All images (76)

Catalogue

    • Archives and manuscripts

    M0011217: Carl Friedrich W. Ludwig's haemodynamometer and kymograph

    | Date: December 1949 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/99/63
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
    • Archives and manuscripts
    • Online

    M0003818: Laennec examines a consumptive patient with a stethoscope in front of his students at the Necker Hospital, 1816

    | Date: 27 March 1934 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/31/76
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
    • Books
    • Online

    Medicine made to agree with the institutions of nature, or A new mechanical practice of physick ... / by Dav. Stephenson, M.A.

    Stephenson, David, M.A. | Date: MDCCXLIV [1744]
    • Archives and manuscripts
    • Online

    M0013878: Weiss's improved patent cupping apparatus

    | Date: January 1955 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/124/63
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
    • Archives and manuscripts

    M0014303: Vaccinating instruments: spatulated blade and scarifyer

    | Date: November 1955 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/127/89
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
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