Medieval

John Arderne's Surgical Work, 1380

The Hippocratic Corpus, 1546

Bleeding Bowl, date unknown

Renaissance

The Last Days of Charles II, 1909

Portrait of Andreas Vesalius, 1514-1564

Andreas Vesalius, The Fabric of the Human Body, 1555

Andreas Vesalius, The Fabric of the Human Body Frontispiece, 1555

Ambroise Paré, Ten Books of Surgery, 1564

Portrait of Dr William Harvey, 1578-1657

The works of that famous chirurgion Ambroise Paré, 1634

William Harvey, An Anatomical Disquisition on the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals, c.1906

Surgical Armament, 1656

Daniel Defoe, The History of the Great Plague in London, in the Year 1665

The history and antiquities of Eyam: with a full and particular account of the great plague, which desolated that village, A.D. 1666, 1842

A Description of a Lancet for the More Secure Letting of Blood, 1674

Plague Recipes, 1684

Culpeper's English Physician and Complete Herbal, 1802

Portrait of Dr Thomas Sydenham, 1685

The Whole Works of Dr Thomas Sydenham, 1696

Orders conceived… concerning the infection of the Plague 1665, 1721

A Discourse on the Plague, 1744

A Few Observations Concerning… The Plague, 1789

Industrial

Cautery iron, 1700

A Dissertation on the method of inoculating the small-pox, 1721

Trepan crown, 18th Century

Ship's surgeon's amputation set, late 18th Century

Leather retractor, mid-18th Century

Moore's compressor, c1780

Keratome, 1786

Class card, 1788

John Hunter, A treatise on the blood, inflammation, and gun-shot wounds, 1794

Edward Jenner, An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae, 1798

Bullet extractor, 1800

Report on the Subject of Vaccine Inoculation, 1806

Amputation knife, c. 1825

Fleams, c early 19th Century

Trephining instruments, early 19th Century

Cholera letter, 1831

Cholera Poster from the Gateshead Board of Health, 1831

Cholera Propaganda Poster, 1831

Cholera Propaganda Poster, 1831

Daily Report of Cholera at Gateshead, 1831

Cholera Scrapbook Volume 1, 1831

Cholera Scrapbook Volume 2, 1831

Reece's Medical Annual for 1832

Edwin Chadwick, Report on the sanitary condition of the labouring population of Great Britain, 1842

Brandy decanter, c1847

John Snow, On the Mode of Communication of Cholera, 1849

Dental key, mid-19th Century

Simpson's curved forceps, mid-19th Century

Simpson's short curved forceps, mid-19th Century

Simpson's stethoscope, mid-19th Century

Amputation knives, 19th century

Lithotomy forceps, 19th Century

Dietary Table, 1853

Professor Simpson's Pamphlets on Chloroform, 1848

Set of couching instruments in wooden box, c1857

Florence Nightingale, Notes on Nursing, 1859

Florence Nightingale, Notes on Hospitals, 1859

Lister's antiseptic gauze bandage, c1860s

Chloroform drop bottle, c1870

Joseph Lister's Carbolic Spray, c.1870

Carbolic spray, 1870s

Gin Lane, 1870s

Louis Pasteur, Studies on Beer, 1876

Lord Lister's coat, c1880

Carbolised catgut ligatures, late 19th Century

Horsehair ligatures, late 19th Century

Chloroform mask, c1890

Rontgen x-ray, 1895

Modern

Dr Elsie Inglis (1864-1917)

Shell fragments, 1914-1918

Thomas splint, date unknown

Notebook of Operations, 1915-1919

Postcard depicting a ward in the First Northern General Hospital, 1915

Shoulder badge, c1916

Sphagnum moss dressing, c1940

Sphagnum moss dressing, c1940

Notebook and Sketches of Harold Gillies, 1941

Padgett's dermatome, c1942

Print of Royal Victoria Infirmary, c1950s

Child Vaccination Poster, 20th Century

Lung Cancer Poster, 20th Century

Heart-lung machine, c1989

Hancock heart valve, 1990s

Annual Report of the Chief Medical Officer, 2002

Cutting blades, 2013

Laparoscopic shears, 2014

Tourniquet, 2014

Surgical staplers, c2014

Knee prosthesis, c2017