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Tools of the Trade

Explore the process of developing and marketing medicines; from medicinal ingredients, research and clinical trials, branding, packaging, and advertising.

Victorian Glass Carboys

Shop windows in the 1500s and 1600s consisted of small panes of glass, often with a “bull nose” where the hand-made glass had been attached ...

Wilson-Type Screw-Barrel Microscope, around 1710

This Wilson-Type Screw-Barrel Microscope is engraved: ‘E. Culpeper Fecit’, indicating that it was made by the British scientific instrument manufacturer Edmund Culpeper (1670–1738). The microscope was ...

Wound Dressing, 1941

Cloth pouch containing a War Office Army Medical Department Shell Dressing, enclosed in a waterproof cover. The bandage was manufactured by S. Maw, Son and ...

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