A worn leather wallet containing a few instruments, including a pair of hooks, a catheter, a curette, and two undetermined pieces. Also included is a cardboard spool of silk, some needles, and a small folding leather card holder.
A surgical instrument/amputation kit, in a wooden box with several velvet-lined trays and inserts. Included in the kit are several scalpels and bistouries, a spiral tourniquet, a number of forceps, needles, a metacarpal saw, a capital saw, a trephining set, spatula, probes and probe director, and a pair of retractors.
Subject (Name):
Bernard Kosto, M.D. and Yale University. School of Medicine.
Subject (Topic):
Amputation and Trepanning and Surgical Instruments
A wooden box, lined with velvet and lockable (the key is included with the set). Inside are two bone-handled scalpels, a wooden-handled scalpel, a retractor hook, a pair of large needle forceps, a metal scalpel, a chain hook with three hooks, a probe, and a bistourie. Beneath the lid of the box is a hidden compartment that holds a pair of scissors and a pair of smaller needle forceps.
A bifolding leather surgical wallet lined with blue velvet. Inside the wallet are several pieces, including a catheter with an extender, and a pair of locking forceps. Also included are four folding-style pocket instruments that contain tools such as tenaculums, bistouries, and scalpels.
A number of surgical instruments, including a capital saw, a metacarpal saw, an amputating scalpel, an additional narrow knife, a chisel, a rongeur, and a pair of bone forceps.
A wooden box with several velvet-lined trays and inserts. Inside the kit can be found several knives and scalpels, several types of forceps, including bone and artery forceps, a pair of retractors, a trephine set with brush, a pair of catheters, a trephine elevator, a pair of tenaculum, some needles, and an antrum drill.
Subject (Name):
Bernard Kosto, M.D. and Yale University. School of Medicine.
Subject (Topic):
Amputation and Trepanning and Surgical Instruments
George Tiemann and Company Ticknor, Commander Benjamin, MC, USN, MD (Hon. Yale 1836) Warner, Donald, Esq.
Published / Created:
mid 19th century
Collection Title:
Medical Instrument Collection
Container / Volume:
Box 012
Image Count:
3
Description:
A folding leather wallet containing several surgical instruments, including lancets, scalpels, forceps, probes, a bullet scoop, needles, a spatula, scissors, and a catheter.
Subject (Name):
Bernard Kosto, M.D. and Yale University. School of Medicine.