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Medicine through time
Description
Students will have the chance to see, touch and investigate the objects that changed medical history – a powerful learning tool for tactile and kinaesthetic learners.
The box contains a selection of original medical objects and copies of original documents relating to nursing, midwifery, immunisation and other topics related to the development of medical practices.
Box contents
Pewter Bleeding Bowl
Fleam
Fleaming Stick
Tourniquet
Cupping Glass
Syringe
Pill Rollers (Pill Making Machine)
Water Analysis Kit
Victorian Apothecary’s Balance
Ceramic Inhaler
Penicillin Ointment
Birthing Forceps
Hearing aid
Bowls & Kidney Dish
Midwifery for Nurses (1916 edition
A Manual of Nursing: Medical and Surgical (1911 edition)
The Midwife’s Pronouncing Dictionary (1916 edition)
The Nurse’s Dictionary (1956 edition
Photograph of Nurse K.E. Liddington in Uniform (1930s)(copy)
Monaural Stethoscope
Notice of Vaccination against
Smallpox (Copy)
Dating from 1899
Immunisation against
Diphtheria form (Copy
Letter informing of Smallpox
Vaccination (Copy)
Dating from 1907
Rat
Appropriate for
Key stage 3 (KS3), Key stage 4 (KS4)
National curriculum (NC) links
Hire period
6 weeks (one half term)
Collect from
Northampton Museum & Art Gallery, Guildhall Road, Northampton, NN1 1DP
Price
£75