A set of urologic instruments housed in a worn, leather covered box with a velvet covered tray. Included in the set are thirteen Van Buren sounds (sizes 10-21), a sound gauge, a urethral speculum, and a set of seven Otto and Sons bougie à boules (sizes 8-23).
George Tiemann and Company Sunderland, Mrs. William (1964) Wade and Ford
Published / Created:
ca. mid-late 19th century
Collection Title:
Medical Instrument Collection
Container / Volume:
Box 096
Image Count:
7
Alternative Title:
Surgical Instruments Set
Description:
A wooden box with brass fixtures and lined with velvet. Inside the box can be found several surgical instruments, including a pair of bone forceps, a trephine handle and bits, a capital saw, a chain saw, a Hey’s saw, scalpels, osteotomes, probes, metacarpal saw, a Buck's drill, a trephine and trephine brush, a curved director, and a spiral tourniquet. Most of the tools have ivory handles. The case bears the name of the manufacturer Wade and Ford of New York, but some of the tools are produced by George Tiemann and Company.
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.
