A leather-bound wooden box, lined with green cloth. The top layer of the box includes several trephining instruments with wooden handles. The bottom layer consists of several lithotomy instruments.
A wooden quassia tonic cup—the cup is made with the wood from the Jamaican quassia tree. These goblet shaped cups were filled with water in the evening and the bitterness of the wood flavored the water overnight. One would drink the water to recover from
Subject (Name):
Bernard Kosto, M.D. and Yale University. School of Medicine.
A wooden quassia tonic cup—the cup is made with the wood from the Jamaican quassia tree. These goblet shaped cups were filled with water in the evening and the bitterness of the wood flavored the water overnight. One would drink the water to recover from
Subject (Name):
Bernard Kosto, M.D. and Yale University. School of Medicine.
A wooden quassia tonic cup—the label affixed to the cup is badly damaged, but the first paragraph tells the reader that the contents were intended for the relief of "dyspepsia, indigestion, headache, fever and ague, debility (sp), loss of appetite, etc."
Subject (Name):
Bernard Kosto, M.D. and Yale University. School of Medicine.
