September 30, 2019
Most of us have a hot water bottle somewhere in the house and this object is an early 1800s version of just that!
May 18, 2016
Colonel Robert Jones, CB, promoted the use of the Thomas splint for the initial treatment of femoral fractures and reduced mortality related to compound fractures of the femur from 87% to less than 8% in the period from 1916 to 1918.
May 18, 2015
Beaufort War Hospital became a centre in the relatively new medical discipline of Orthopaedics in the summer of 1916.
May 18, 2015
This box from the hospital’s collection contains the Smart-Bristow faradic apparatus. Our box is probably late 1920s
