M0019258: Parchment bags and sponge used as teats for babies' bottles until 1869

Previous title, replaced July 2022: Parchment bags and sponge used as teats for bottles to 1869

Photograph of parchment bags and sponge of the sort used as teats for babies' bottles until 1869. The fluid would have been sucked through the stitching. The items were presented to the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum at an unknown point and accessioned in 1939 (accession number R945/1939)

November 1962

1 photograph sheet film negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides an entry for the item: R945/1939

Copyright is held by Wellcome Collection

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2022.

This item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.