Collecting antique medical equipment

Does anyone here collect antique medical equipment? I think collecting old medical equipment would definitely be a neat and fun hobby.

Not really collecting but I had found 3 old metal urinals that would have been bedside in a hospital and a metal bedpan-----all three things found at garage sales, flea markets

I have a few pieces that I bought at a consignment store. I have no idea what they are.

Someone my way had an antique oak exam table for free the other day. I was so tempted but I have 3 now, and one of them is still under a tarp on the lawn waiting to be brought inside... I see the ad is down, I hope some kinkster got it.

I have a few pieces that I bought at a consignment store. I have no idea what they are.

Post pictures in an album here and I'll bet you get a quick answer!

Not a collector, but I have a set of old, black metal stirrups. Need to get them mounted on something.

I have not collected antique medical equipment but I love looking at pictures of them. In Victoria here one of the hospitals have a good display of very early medical equipment used. Some of it looks like it came straight from the Spanish inquisition! I'm so happy I was born in more enlightened times.

I like collecting old hernia trusses. If anyone has any let me know.

Hey bbw4doc… How about an old black metal horse!!! (l0l…couldn't resist. sorry!)

I actually have a great deal of antique medical equipment. A bunch of white enamelware: Irrigators, bedpans, emesis basins, pitchers, wash basins, and other hospitalware. I have two mercury sphygmometers, lots of plasma bottles and sets, mercury thermometers, pharmaceutical bottles, sterilizers, catgut and needles, stethoscopes, stretchers, hot water bottles, fountain syringes, needle sets, latex surgical tubing, and lot of emergency equipment and bandages. Except for no X-ray, I could almost open a 1940's clinic! All carefully stored with no venue to display it!

Mostly use disposables etc.

That being said, i have really nice restored antique violet wand, about 100 yo and still in good shape, tis most glorious.

I have old stuff I can use: vaginal speculums (in my anus) combination anoscope-sigmoidoscope kit, metal urinary catheter, mercury blood pressure cuff, and assorted hemostats.

It might be a good way to openly “disguise” your fetish.

Ooh i collect medical antique equipment due to a interests in the history of medicine.

When the guests leave no one knows what happens to the “display pieces" when they are not in the home.

I hide my things when guests come over.

I have quite a lot of old medical items and instruments that I have found at flea-markets and in junk stores over the years. They used to be fairly easy and cheap to find: all kinds of sounds, speculua both vaginal and rectal, anal viewing probes, injection needles, clysters and enamel pans galore and sundry stuff.

I've a large oversized bathroom where I bought a few metal and glass medical cabinets from IKEA and a massage table that works well as an exam table when draped in white. The bathroom is decorated in a vaguely medical manner with the old items on display in the modern cabinets mixed up with normal bathroom items like tubes of toothpaste, handsoap, oils and bath gels, towels, washcloths and such.

I know that the room doesn't look like a run-of-the-mill bathroom but it isn't strictly medical either. Sort of in between. I let the friends who've seen it think of it what they will. Perhaps they gossip or maybe not. I've never heard anything adverse said though.

My stethoscope collection includes a few vintage instruments. It's interesting to compare the sound quality and comfort with modern stethoscopes.

If equipment can include clothing, I've been pondering this a bit lately. Lately, I've been kind of hanging in ABDL space and looking at old Montgomery Ward/Sears and Penney's catalog info from the ‘80’s, when I was growing up. My other main fetish is for footed pajamas (or “blanket sleepers” as they were caled then). They looked a tiny bit different then, with the white vinyl toecaps and soles. It made me wonder about masks, which is my medfet. Obviously Black Beauties were still used to anesthetize, and that's cool to look back on, , but what about immunosuppressed patients? Were masks much different back then? Was the NIOSH scale, which gives us the buzzwords “N95”, “P100” and whatever the European equivalents are, invented yet?

I don't collect vintage medfet or ABDL things, but that may be because I am celibate. If that were ever to change and I start dating, and exploring sexuality, with a girl, I might really get into vintage things like this. It would be kind of fun to recreate the earliest years of my fetishes.

I love antique fever thermometers