Our favourite is here and we couldn’t resist showing off our beautiful gold-plated trephine! A trephine is a drill used to bore holes into the skull during the ancient surgical procedure of trephination (also trepanation).
📷 Charles Bell, Illustrations, 1821.

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The humble tourniquet. A workhorse and worthy of a spotlight! This one from our collection is a 19th-century Petit-type tourniquet with the innovative “screw” design introduced by surgeon Jean-Louis Petit. Book your tickets here!
👉https://t.co/dj4sNVtzOo

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Q: Do better tools make a better artist? A: Only grueling old-fashioned practice can.😭 I’ve done most of my pro work with cheap, readily available tools you could find at Walgreens 🤣 Ballpoint pen & Sharpie on copy paper: Still one of my favorite mediums.

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