Oh, yes glass syringes, boiled in the kitchen, when Daddy had used them. Likewise forceps and the entire contents of his Maternity bag after every confinement.
I remember as an adult asking a friend where in her fridge she kept the butter as I couldn't find it. Puzzled she replied, "In the compartment marked "butter"!" I explained that that was were my father kept the vaccines that could be kept for a while, so the family never opened it.
As the doctor's eldest I became proficient (aged 5) at re-rolling crepe and gauze bandages that had been washed and dried. The actual dressings were burnt in our Raeburn.
I have a sneaking feeling that my mother ironed the gauze bandages! I know for a fact that she ironed my sister's gauze nappies, which were used inside the terry towelling ones.