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Coconut and wooden goblet, with silver mounts and bearing arms of William Cheselden on side, 18th century

goblets

Wellcome (general)

1701-1800

Physician's cane with copper knob handle, containi

Orthopaedics

1801-1900

Physician's cane with copper knob handle, unscrewing to reveal two hollow containers, top section holding medicine glass, English, 1801-1900

Physician's cane with copper knob handle, unscrewi

Surgery

1801-1900

Physician's stick made of wood with engraved ivory handle entwined with carved snake and buckle, with ivory ferrule, Persian, 1701-1900

Physician's stick made of wood with engraved ivory

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1701-1900

Wooden snuff box, cylindrical, lacquered, painted on top with a scene of a physician taking a patient's pulse

Wooden snuff box, cylindrical, lacquered, painted

Smoking

Physician's staff of natural wood with rough knob handle and carved ivory snake embedded along length of shaft topped with carved skull, probably European, 1701-1900

Physician's staff of natural wood with carved ivory snake and carved skull, 1701-1900

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1701-1900

Physician's cane with fluted carved ivory handle, English, 1801-1900

Physician's cane with fluted carved ivory handle,

Surgery

1801-1900

Physician's cane with copper knob handle containing glass phial and goblet with broken base, probably English, 1801-1900

Physician's cane with copper knob handle containin

Surgery

1801-1900

Physician's cane, metal cap and ferrule remove to reveal contents, two chipped glass tubes, probably English, 1801-1880

Physician's cane, metal cap and ferrule remove to

Surgery

1801-1880

Physician's cane with copper knob handle, unscrewing to reveal two hollow container sections, now empty, probably English, 1801-1900

Physician's cane with copper knob handle, unscrewi

Surgery

1801-1900

Physician's cane with broken brass knob handle opening to reveal container, probably English, 1801-1900

Physician's cane with broken brass knob handle ope

Orthopaedics

1801-1900

Physician's cane with silver mount and ivory knob handle decorated with pattern of silver studs, M.D. 98 inlaid on top of handle, English, 1790-1898

Physician's cane with silver mount and ivory knob

Surgery

1790-1898

Wooden snuff box, cylindrical, painted with a portrait of an early physician

Wooden snuff box, cylindrical, painted with a port

Smoking

Wooden snuff box, oval, with marquetry work on the lid, owned by George Laceman, physician to George III

Wooden snuff box, oval, with marquetry work on the

Smoking

Twisted cane staff with handle in form of right hand grasping serpent, part of serpent missing, inscribed curpinch stick, may be European or from Papua New Guinea, 19th century

Twisted cane staff with handle in form of right ha

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1801-1900

Long wooden physician's staff with inscribed silver mount and stone boss, gift of James Lind M.D. to James Rae, surgeon, English, 1751-1900

Long wooden physician's staff with inscribed silve

Surgery

1751-1900

Heavy wooden physician's staff, with cross hook handle, silver collar and carved serpent coiled up shaft, English, 1791-1850

Heavy wooden physician's staff, with cross hook ha

Surgery

1791-1850

Light stick, with embossed silver mount, and carved ivory skull pommel, probably English, 1771-1900

Light stick, with embossed silver mount, and carve

Surgery

1771-1900

Physician's malacca cane with ivory handle, in form of head, half skull, half girl with long hair, backed by owl, with serpent in talons, probably English, 1850-1910

Physician's malacca cane with ivory handle, in for

Surgery

1850-1910

Physician's walking stick, wooden, very light, with crude hand-carved handle in form of full length figure, serpent coiled round shaft, probably English, 1890-1920

Physician's walking stick, wooden, very light, wit

Orthopaedics

1890-1920

Wooden snuff box, cylindrical, lacquered and top painted with a portrait possibly of a physician, possibly 18th century

Wooden snuff box, cylindrical, lacquered and top p

Smoking

1701-1800

Physicians staff, broken, elaborately carved with Atlas supporting universe on the pommel, and snake entwined with flowers and foliage on shaft, European, 1701-1800

Physicians staff, broken, elaborately carved with

Surgery

1701-1800

Wooden physician's walking stick with carved decoration of entwined serpent with human head pommel, European, 1701-1850

Wooden physician's walking stick with carved decor

Surgery

1701-1850

Physician's walking stick, cane, with integral phial and copper and brass pommel, probably European, 1701-1850

Physician's walking stick, cane

Surgery

1701-1850

Seated statue (copy) of chief Egyptian physician Nin-ankh-re, 6th Dynasty, Egypt, 2600-2400BC

Seated statue (copy) of chief Egyptian physician

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2600-2400 BCE

Physician's cane with copper knob handle, unscrewing to reveal two sections containing medicine glass and phial, probably English, 1801-1900

Physician's cane with copper knob handle, unscrewi

Surgery

1801-1900

Physician's staff of natural wood, with rough knob pommel, ivory snake embedded along length, carved skull recessed near pommel, probably European, 1701-1900

Physician's staff of natural wood, with rough knob

Surgery

1701-1900

Physician's staff of carved natural wood, with entwined serpent, probably European, 1701-1830

Physician's staff of carved natural wood, with ent

Surgery

1701-1830

Physician's staff of wood with carved snake, nesti and bird handle, probably English, 1701-1850

Physician's staff of wood with carved snake, nesti

Surgery

1701-1850

Physicians cane, with wooden knob handle, probably not original, probably English, 1850-1900

Physicians cane, with wooden knob handle, probably

Surgery

1850-1900

Ebonised walking stick with silver collar and ivory skull for pommel, probably English, 1771-1900

Ebonised walking stick with silver collar and ivor

Surgery

1771-1900

Bleak and gilt physician's staff, wooden, with crutch handle with four gilded carved figures, serpent twines up shaft, possibly English, 1771-1850

Bleak and gilt physician's staff, wooden, with cru

Surgery

1771-1850

Physician's malacca cane with ivory handle in form of hand grasping serpent, probably English, 1850-1910

Physician's malacca cane with ivory handle in form

Surgery

1850-1910

Stick with octagonal physician's wooden walking stick with octagonal black handle and two snakes twined round shaft, probably English, 1770-1870

Stick with octagonal physician's wooden walking st

Orthopaedics

1771-1870

Wooden snuff box, cylindrical, decorated on the lid with a scene from a physician's consulting room possibly French

Wooden snuff box, cylindrical, decorated on the li

Smoking

Wooden snuff box, cylindrical, painted with a portrait of an ancient physician

Wooden snuff box, cylindrical, painted with a port

Smoking

Physicians cane with copper knob handle, unscrewing to reveal two sections, one containing medicine glass engraved "Big Ben", English, 1850-1900

Physicians cane with copper knob handle, unscrewin

Surgery

1850-1900

Physician's cane with brass knob handle, unscrewing to reveal two sections containing broken medicine glass phial both etched "Big Ben", English, 1850-1900

Physician's cane with brass knob handle, unscrewin

Surgery

1850-1900

Physician's cane with ivory knob handle, probably English, 1701-1830

Physician's cane with ivory knob handle, probably

Surgery

1701-1830

Walking stick made of spiralling narwhal tusk, with silver mount inscribed Myra Hooper, English, 1801-1900

Walking stick made of spiralling narwhal tusk

Surgery

1801-1900