Medical Objects: Instruments, Artifacts, Technologies, Specimens

• Artifact Collection: The Bakken Museum – 2,500 artifacts from the 18th century to the present
• Balm of America: Patent Medicine Collection: The National Museum of American History (Smithsonian Institution) – Each entry includes a photo of the object, the product’s name, marker’s name, place of manufacture, and a date range. Ingredients and therapeutic claims are included when indicated on the product packaging
• Banque d’images et de portraits: Bibliothèque interuniversitaire de Santé – This provides access to more than 200,000 images of objects and pictures from the collections of the BIU Santé as well as the Bibliothèque de l’Académie natioale de médecine, the Musée de L’Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, the Musée des Moulages de l’Hôpital Saint-Louis, the Ecole nationale vétérinaire d’Alfort, the Musée François Tillequin, and the Bibliothèque médicale Henri Ey du Centre hospitalier Sainte-Anne.
• Brought to Life: Science Museum  – images of thousands of artifacts and objects from the London-based Science Museum’s medical collections
• Doctors of British Columbia Medical Museum – Images and descriptions of artifacts rangingfrom the earliest medical equipment used by pioneer physicians in the settlement of the province to the early adoption of modern medical technology
• Edgar R. McGuire Historical Medical Instrument Collection: University at Buffalo Libraries – Images and descriptions of more than 150 instruments or sets of instruments illustrating past medical and dental procedures
• Florence Nightingale Museum – The online catalogue includes images of documents as well as objects with descriptions from the life of Florence Nightingale.
• History of Medicine Artifacts Collection, 1550-1980s: David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Duke University – historical medical instruments and artifacts, art objects, realia, and other three-dimensional objects, primarily originating from Europe and the United States, but including some artifacts from China and Japan. Ranging from the late 16thto late 20th centuries
• Infant Feeders Collection: UBC Library Digital Collections – Images and descriptions of devices used for feeding infants
• Library Artifact Collection: Duke Medicine Digital Repository – More than 100 images of medical artifacts owned by the Duke Medical Center Library & Archives
• Medical Artifact Collection: Western University – Pictures and descriptions of 1000 artefacts, which represent the practice and teaching of health and medicine in south-western Ontario. It includes cardiology, opthalmology, dentistry, pharmacology, surgery, homeopathy, obstretrics, phlebotomy, veterinary and military medicine, microscopy, anatomy, and alternative medicine from late eighteenth to late twentieth centuries.
• Medical Instruments and Artifacts: Cushing-Whitney Medical Library, Yale University –Primarily 19th and early 20th century medical instruments and artifacts with some Roman, Chinese, and 17th and 18th century objects
• Museum of Health Care at Kingston – The research collection contains images and descriptions of the museum’s 35,000+ artifacts, from surgical tools to laboratory instruments, 18th century to the present
• The Hunterian Museum (Glasgow, Scotland) – The museum’s online catalogue contains pictures and descriptions of its collections of anatomical specimens and models as well as medical and scientific instruments.
• The Royal College of Surgeons of England – The SurgiCat online catalogue contains pictures and descriptions of the more than 50,000 objects found in the Royal College’s two museums, the Hunterian Museum and the Wellcome Museum. Includes anatomical models and surgical and dental instruments.
• The Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology – images and descriptions of objects and instruments related to the history of anesthesiology