Names

Melbourne University Medical History Museum Medical Purging Equipment

IDs

MHM003

http://www.jnmhugateways.unimelb.edu.au/mhm/MHMS014.htm

Descriptions

Five sets of Victorian era enema and stomach pumps.

Five sets of Victorian era of enema and stomach pumps consisting of ivory and metal enema tubes, oesophageal pipes, a vulcanite mouth gags and stomach tubes by makers such as S. Mawson & Thompson and Mayer and Meltzer, both London instrument makers, and Joseph Gray & Son, from Sheffield.

This collection contains a range of medical and scientific instruments of significance to the history of Science in Australia.

Please contact the Medical History Museum, Cultural Collections, University of Melbourne

Please contact the Medical History Museum, Cultural Collections, University of Melbourne

Subjects

Animal structure and function; Digestive Organs; Enema; Medical Equipment; Purging; Scientists; Social history; Stomach tubes

Animal structure and function; Australia; Digestive Organs; History; Medical Equipment; Scientists; Social

Dr.; George; Gray; Howard; Joseph; Mawson; Son; Thomas; Thompson

Coverage Spatial

Sheffield; Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; London

Coverage Temporal

1860

1900

Related Collections

Dates

2012-05-30 23:43

2011-06-07 09:49