OBJECT LESSONS
Our column for Lancet takes a medically related object and uses it to to explore medicine's rich past.
We began appropriately with a Lancet and have continued with some fascinating material goods from the world of medicine.
William Harvey's demonstration rod
Lancet and case, the property of Thomas Dimsdale (1712–1800), said to have been used to inoculate Empress Catherine of Russia in 1768
Courtesy of the Hunterian Museum at the The Royal College of Surgeons