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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

See the full list of the medicine through time object box

  • 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