Themes Salisbury Healthcare History

Detail of historic portrait

Brodie’s bone studies

x-ray of elbow straight and bent

X-rays: the inside view

x-ray table and x-ray tube and associated equipment, floral wallpaper on wall behind

All about X-rays

patient wearing head guard about to enter scanner

Marvellous MRIs

woman viewing samples through powerful multi-lens microscope

Using microscopes in hospital

1920s metal optical microscope with wooden box, University of Edinburgh notes and pack of six coloured pencils in pink box

Dr Walker’s microscope

National Health Service begins

large wooden board holding a text book with tube attachment and device to turn the page

Interesting inventions to help patients

Jeanne Yates with new theatre equipment

Pioneering theatres

Dr Barron and colleagues consulting patient

Plastic Surgery and Burns

Title still taken from Darmady's film The Artificial Kidney

From Spitfire to Dialysis

Patient on operating table with lighting, equipment nurses and doctor attending

How do you light an operating theatre?