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Forceps Collection

Background imageForceps Collection: Surgical equipment including saws, knives and scalpels

Surgical equipment including saws, knives and scalpels.. Surgical equipment including amputating and metacarpal saws, knives, catling, bistoury, scalpel, needle, tenaculum

Background imageForceps Collection: Forceps and Bandages

Forceps and Bandages
A selection of medical appliances, including forceps and a hook to extract bullets (fig 8). Also bandage application diagrams

Background imageForceps Collection: Forceps crab, Lupella forceps

Forceps crab, Lupella forceps (Slender-fingered lupa, Lupa forceps). Handcoloured copperplate engraving drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder from William Elford Leachs Zoological Miscellany

Background imageForceps Collection: Methods of Arresting Bleeding with various tourniquets

Methods of Arresting Bleeding with various tourniquets, clamps, manual pressure, forceps, knotted handkerchiefs and bandages. Date: circa 1880s

Background imageForceps Collection: Male St Helena giant earwig

Male St Helena giant earwig
Named in 1798 by the Danish zoologist Fabricus, Labidura herculeanais theworlds longest earwig speciesreaching up to 78mm in length including its forceps. Date: 1798

Background imageForceps Collection: Surgical equipment for couching and the extraction

Surgical equipment for couching and the extraction of a cataract.. Surgical equipment for couching and the extraction of the cataract: Scarpas couching needle, Heys couching needle, Pelliers hook

Background imageForceps Collection: Surgical equipment for a lithotomy from the 19th century

Surgical equipment for a lithotomy from the 19th century.. Surgical equipment for a lithotomy- sound, staffs, Blunt gorget, Hawkins cutting gorget, Mr. Clines cutting gorget, Mr

Background imageForceps Collection: Surgical equipment including probes, catheters and scissors

Surgical equipment including probes, catheters and scissors.. Surgical equipment including spatula, eye probe, caustic case, probe, director, pocket tenaculum, male and female catheters, needles

Background imageForceps Collection: The Chalmers-Hunt Collection

The Chalmers-Hunt Collection
Michael Chalmers-Hunt (1920-2004), a keen and highly respected entomologist, built this fascinating collection from redundant and unwanted items discarded by other entomologists and museum curators


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