Perkins Brailler MachineUllapool Museum In 1951, David Abraham worked as a woodworking teacher at the Perkins school for the blind and wanted the students to have better equipment to write braille with. His solution was the Perkins Brailler. The device allows users...
Vitrified Rock from Dun LagaidhUllapool Museum This small piece of rock may not look very special, but it is actually from the fort of Dun Lagaidh. Around the twelfth century, Dun Lagaidh was refortified from a simple wooden fort to a stone Dun. Dun Lagaidh appears...
Anaesthetic MaskUllapool Museum Before anaesthetics were routinely used to sedate patients for operations, surgery was an even more traumatic affair than it can be today. Historically, patients may have been given alcohol to soothe them or may even have attempted...
Kielland Obstetric ForcepsUllapool Museum Forceps have been used during childbirth for centuries in order to aid the mother in the safe delivery of a baby. Though imperfect, they have saved countless lives, particularly when there are complications in a birth. This...
Bottle of ChloroformGlencoe Folk Museum This brown glass bottle would have once contained chloroform, a substance which was used as an anaesthetic. In the nineteenth century, lots of different substances were being trialled as potential drugs to keep people asleep...
