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Medical instruments and apparatus

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Scientific apparatus and instruments
Biomedical Engineering
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Images from the collections

Images about Medical instruments and apparatus

108 images from works
  • M0017667: Instruments for cutting the bones of the foetus
  • 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.
  • M0016403: English version of a Laennec stethoscope, 19th century
  • 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.
  • A surgery where all fantasy and follies are purged and good qualities are prescribed. Line engraving by E. de Boulonnois, 16--.
  • The medical practitioner as Christ, angel, man and devil. Coloured engravings by J. Gelle after E. van Panderen.
  • A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: an operating room with an anxious surgeon and fainting nurses. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.
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Works from the collections

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    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

    M0017274: Illustration of a specula designed by Sir William Fergusson

    | Date: March 1959 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/155/12
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
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