Surgical Instruments Set

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Description

Title: Surgical Instruments Set
Contributor: Bernard Kosto, M.D.
Published / Created: 1850-1900
Description: A wooden box with brass fixtures and closures—the contents within lie in a fitted, velvet-covered trays. Included are several ivory-handled instruments, such as a bow saw, a trephine and a trephine brush, a spiral tourniquet, a levator, a Buck's drill, a trephine handle and bits, probes, a metacarpal saw, scalpels, an osteotome, and a tenaculum. The owner's name, T. H. (Thomas Herring) Burchard, is imprinted on a cartouche on the top lid of the box.
Extent: (case dimensions): 4.75 in. x 7 in. x 16 in.
Language: No linguistic content; Not applicable

Access: Public
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Citation: White, JB "Thomas Herring Burchard, A.M., M.D., of New York" (obituary). From The Medical News, April 3rd, 1897