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Lancet

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  • Metal storage tube for vaccines, Europe, 1881-1920
  • Lancet owned by Edward Jenner, England, 1720-1800
  • Vaccination lancet, London, England, 1822-1850
  • Bronze lancet, found at Ephesus
  • Surgical instrument set with case, England, 1650-1700
  • Six lancets in a tortoiseshell case, England, 1701-1900
  • Lancet in bone sheath, Indian, 1800-1899
  • Vaccination lancet, London, England, 1869-1900
  • Copy of a large lance used during plague epidemics in Marsei
  • Lancet, reputedly from Japan, c. 1801-1900
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Catalogue

    • Books

    Technologies for global health / The Lancet and Imperial College London Commission.

    | Date: 2012
    • Books

    The Lancet : malaria elimination : an executive summary for The Lancet series.

    | Date: [2010]
    • Books

    The Lancet : malaria elimination / [editor, Richard Horton].

    | Date: 2010
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