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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

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  • 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 and 4
Hire period 6 weeks (one half term)
Collect from Northampton Museum & Art Gallery, Guildhall Road, Northampton, NN1 1DP
Suggested activities The box contains a resource pack with all relevant information and suggested activities to do with you class.
Cost £75

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