J. Reynders and Company Lusk, William Thompson, 1838-1897 Thoms, Herbert (1885-1972)
Published / Created:
19th century
Collection Title:
Medical Instrument Collection
Container / Volume:
Box 094
Image Count:
1
Description:
A metal cephalotribe, which seem to be missing both a screw and a wing nut. This cephalotribe listed as belonging to William Lusk who taught a Bellevue Medical College. Cephalotribes (headcrushers) first appeared in the early nineteenth century. A cephalotribe was a medical instrument used in obstetrics to crush the skull of stillborn fetuses (cephalotripsy).
Subject (Name):
Bernard Kosto, M.D. and Yale University. School of Medicine.
J. Reynders and Company Thoms, Herbert (1885-1972)
Collection Title:
Medical Instrument Collection
Container / Volume:
Box 045
Image Count:
1
Description:
A metal cranioclast with wood handles, two joints, and finger lugs. Craniocalsts were known as skull crushers. Their use was advocated only after all else had failed.
Subject (Name):
Bernard Kosto, M.D. and Yale University. School of Medicine.
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
