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Birth, babies and boxes of memories

With memories of her baby in neonatal intensive care still fresh, Erin Beeston decides to unearth the poignant objects her family kept following births, going back as far as Victorian times.

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The case of the cancerous stomach

Steak and schnitzel were on the menu again after Theodor Billroth successfully excised a woman’s stomach cancer in 1881. Remarkably, today’s surgeons still perform the same procedure, with slight modifications.

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  • Spoons from the Burlington Fine Arts Club. Together with microfilm of description.
  • Spoons from the Burlington Fine Arts Club. Together with microfilm of description.
  • Roman instruments, spoons, forks etc.
  • Old eating implements: spoons, forks, and a knife. Engraving after Schnebbelie.
  • A man is carrying a sack on his back, a basket and wooden spoons in his hand. Coloured engraving.
  • Africa: a display of Zulu shields, mats, pillows, smoking horns, monchies, spoons, baskets, tschinala and amas pots, and beadwork. Albumen print.
  • Three men are working at making metal objects such as bowls, spoons, goblets and jugs, some tools of their trade are hanging on the walls. Coloured etching.
  • 4 Pewter medicine spoons or measures. Medicine spoon or measure, probably pewter, with bowl at either end. Medicine spoon or child's feeding spoon, plated. Hallmark castle in shiled; EP; Co. P; S. Medicine spoon or measure, plted. Hall-mark: Maws's trademark; A; 16 in shield. Veterinary feeding spoon. Hallmark: ETM; fleur-de-lys; C in oval, NS.
  • Blackwell's Island Penitentiary, New York: (left) prisoners are walking in a long file leaving spoons in a bowl as they go past; (right) prisoners stand in line to receive a loaf of bread. Wood engraving by W.J. Palmer, 1876, after F. Régamay.
  • Top left, gamebirds watching in safety while hunters and poachers shoot each other; top right, a graveyard for colonial institutions in Africa; bottom left, spoonbills (birds) made of teapots and spoons; bottom centre, two men talking about a hen and some ducklings; bottom right, a weather vane in the form of a man holding a gun. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1831.
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