Explore a selection of some of the interesting objects held in the Collection.
A slightly unusual object from the museum; a knuckle-duster owned by Frederick Smith, a dentist from Chesterfield.
The earliest illustration of a chair being used during childbirth dates to 1450 BC.
This brandy decanter was used to store chloroform by James Young Simpson during his discovery of the anaesthetic properties of the chemical in 1847.
This brass shoulder badge would have been worn on the shoulder of someone who worked for the Scottish Women’s Hospitals.
A portrait of Joseph Bell, the inspiration for Sherlock Holmes.
This bladder stone was "cut by Jer. Callot from Thomas Murray at Paris, 8th May 1676" Removing bladder stones was very dangerous as surgeons had to cut into the perineum and then into the bladder.
