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Lancaster's rich medical history includes, amongst others, Roman surgery, St.

Leonard’s leprosy hospital, two famous anatomists, epidemics, jail fever, one of the ‘Black Assizes’, and the second oldest surviving Medical Book Club in the UK

31/07/2025

Pulmonary Tuberculosis (TB) was not only responsible for a massive number of deaths, it impacted on many people and their families up until the use of the antibiotic Streptomycin in the 1950s. Prior to that these Artificial Pneumothorax Boxes were, literally, a life line https://lancasterhealthmedicalmuseum.org.uk/?page_id=732

28/07/2025

Further to our item about The Moor Hospital, Lancaster this Lancaster Civic Vision guide explains how by 1940 capacity peaked at 3200 (up from the 280 in the 1816 building) and by 1948 the whole site had reached 587 acres, up from the original five acres in 1816 https://lancasterhealthmedicalmuseum.org.uk/?p=978

23/07/2025

Lancashire’s first County Lunatic Asylum. A new book has been published by local author Gary Bradshaw detailing the nearly two hundred years history of this dramatic building which dominates eastern Lancaster https://lancasterhealthmedicalmuseum.org.uk/?p=962

05/07/2025

Don't miss these 'Treasures & Talks at The Storey Lancaster - make a note of the dates and times in your diary now

03/07/2025

FREE 'Treasures & Talks' on 17th and 18th September from Lancaster Health & Medical Museum Collection to celebrate Heritage Open Days at The Storey, Lancaster - full list of opening and talk times on our web page. Photo: Matrons Office RLI 1897 https://lancasterhealthmedicalmuseum.org.uk/?p=949

01/07/2025

July 'Object of the Month' is this plaque which was originally placed above a bed in 1917 and donated by the Workpeople's Committee. The committee raised money to support the Infirmary, until the advent of universally free treatment under the NHS, and in its 60 year span raised over £300,000 for the Royal Lancaster Infirmary - https://lancasterhealthmedicalmuseum.org.uk/?page_id=730

01/06/2025

LH&MMC 'Object of the Month' for June is this exquisite Feeding Pot made c1760. The pots were made by Josiah Wedgewood to be used by disabled people who were unable to consume solid food - https://lancasterhealthmedicalmuseum.org.uk/?page_id=728

01/05/2025

Object of the Month for May is this Pharmacognosy Set. To become a pharmacist in the 1960s required knowledge of Pharmacognosy - the study of drugs from medicinal plants. This set was used by the student whilst seconded to Boots Pharmacy from Manchester University https://lancasterhealthmedicalmuseum.org.uk/?p=920

01/04/2025

Object of the month for April is a Dental Student Medical Box. Originally owned by Eric Cooper BDS with Honours, having gained Distinctions in surgery and pharmacology. He was also known as the Colditz Dentist having been a Prisoner Of War in the castle from 1943-1945 https://lancasterhealthmedicalmuseum.org.uk/?page_id=724

08/03/2025

Our object of the month for March from our collection is the Coxeter-Mushin Circle Absorber. Designed in 1941, when the country was in imminent danger of invasion and London being bombed nightly, it was introduced for use in the Emergency Medical services in 1942 https://lancasterhealthmedicalmuseum.org.uk/?p=881

01/02/2025

Our 'Object of the Month' for February is the framed photograph awarded to Matron Lanyon and the Luneside Hospital Staff after the occasion of the deadly flooding of the River Lune and Luneside Isolation Hospital on 28th October 1927 when three TB patients lost their lives https://lancasterhealthmedicalmuseum.org.uk/?page_id=720

07/01/2025

Every month we feature an object from our collection. Our first is one of our more recent acquisitions the 'RLI Collecting Barrel'. Just after the opening of the hospital in 1896 the General Committee discovered that an additional £4,200 was needed for essential items such as furnishing. The barrel was probably one method to raise some of this extra money - https://lancasterhealthmedicalmuseum.org.uk/?page_id=718

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