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One lens can be changed in eyepiece. Used to measure sight and fit eyeglasses.

Bag is made of leather. Contents include: two small surgical kits, needles and syringes, one syringe in metal case.

Wood used in cup reputedly had medicinal properties to enhance any solution drunk as a tonic.

Steel. London: Down. Used in the U.K. and developing countries.

Heavy blown glass.

Hallmark on bottom of bowl.

Five pewter infant or invalid feeders. Reproductions.

Wire handle.

Oxygenkure oxygen generator machine. New York: Seeger & Clarke. Box with directions on the inside of cover.

Whitall, Tatum & Co. Two glass cups, alcohol lamp; brass and wood.

Saddlebag has space for bottles and a drawer on each side. Leather with brass trim. Glass bottles, many with contents.

Housed in a rolled case. Used by Dr. Wilbanks in his 1952 anatomy class.

Medicine chest with homeopathic medicine bottles. Wooden. Glass bottles with labels, some contents intact.

Raritan, N.J.: Ortho Pharmaceutical Corporation

Overbeck's Rejuvenator: popular model "Grimsby"; England, O. Overbeck. Housed in box with original instruction book.

Six large, two small.

New York: W.H. Burnap. Wooden box with magnet and coils, with directions inside lid. Box is damaged and there is no key.

Made in Boston. Wooden box with dry cell battery and electrodes. No key.

Sculpted in Germany. Colored.

Size 2 pestle with size 3 extra pestle; wooden handle is loose. Made in U.S.

Early binaural stethoscope. Philadelphia: George P. Pilling & Son Co. In original wooden box.

Early eyeglasses; two are in leather cases.

Brown tin box is painted orange inside. Contains provenance note, which gives the orginal owner as the Jones Family in New Britain, Connecticut, and dates its use back to 1740.

Eight lancets. Four are housed in tortoise sheaths; two are in brass cases with steel blades; one single blade lancet comes with old worn leather case; one triple blade lancet has unusual horn case.

Small brass microscope in wooden box with green lining. Includes a few glass slides, key for outside of case.

Brass microscope in wooden box with handle on top of box. Microscope on wooden moveable stage inscribed Hill and Price, Bristol. Includes a few glass slides.

Chest piece attachment for early stethoscope; the rubber tubing that attached to the chest piece has been lost.

Gift of Mrs. Mabel F. Williams in memory of donor's husband, Dr. Robert Williams.

Compound binocular. Signed: Spencer, Buffalo, USA. This example has a pair of metal hand rests.

Made of ivory. Essentially a simple magnifier with only one power (7x). Usually the compact design, no larger than the end of a thumb, included a cap or top containing a pin on which to place the specimen and a base with glass discs to serve as "slides" for small objects. Everything screwed together for ease in carrying. Typically, these were used to study tiny insects, hence the name.

Model of the human body showing Chinese acupuncture points and the courses of the meridians. 26 cm tall. Acessories include a case of acupuncture needles and a manual; these are housed in original box.

Made of plastic, on stand; 44 cm tall.

Porcelain with gold rim. Colored floral decorations. Large oblong with central cut out along one side and small cut out on one end of the opposite side.

Ruby glass with gold trim. Flask has cork stopper taped to neck.

Tray of handblown glass eyeballs in various shades of blue.

Includes compass in lid of ivory, velvet-lined case. Engraved on verso of thermometer: Wm Hitchen, 21 Bridgewater Garens [sic]. William Hitchin appears to have been an ivory and tortoiseshell worker at 21 Bridgewater Gardens in the Barbican area of London; he died sometime in 1839 or 1840.

Decorated with gilded red lacquer. Design includes central figure surrounded by twelve other figures. Each figure is the lid of a separate cylindrical well for storing herbs and medicinal plants.

Label: Argent. Oxyd. White ceramic with lid. Lid was damaged and repaired.