2018-5-6 - Doctor's Bag

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In Folder: MIMM - Medical Instruments and Materia Medica

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2018-5-6 - Doctor's Bag

This is a doctor's bag, constructed from dark leather and metal fastings. It also has a rigid metal frame to hold the bag open. It has a leather handled fixed to the top of the bag, with a locking mechanism attacheed directly under it. There is a pocket on the front side, with a flap to cover the top of it with two metal locking mechanisms attached to hold the pocket closed. The leather construction of the bag is intact, however the leather itself is fading and worn from general wear and tear. The leather lining the metal frame is worm and frayed in many places, and the metal itself is corroded and rusted. There are also sall white spots along one side of the bag, but it is unclear what caused them. On the back, there are 5 small, rhomboid shaped holes along the top seam of the bag. The interior of the bag has a removable cloth lining that is attached via metal buttons along the top of the interior of the bag. The lining is lightly stained with leather stain and rust, but is otherwise intact. There is one large pocket along the back wall of the inside of the lining, and multiple small pockets on the opposite side of the interior.

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Reference Number: MIMM/2018-5-6

Date: 1950-1999

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Copyright: Free to use under the terms of the Creative Commons Licence Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)

Credit Line: Royal College of Physicians of Ireland

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