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Creator:: George Tiemann and Company
Published / Created:: 1880-1900
Collection Title:: Medical Instrument Collection
Container / Volume:: Box 182
Image Count:: 1
Description:: A steel urethral sound—used for searching or sounding for a stone.
Subject (Name):: Bernard Kosto, M.D.
Subject (Topic):: Urologic Instruments and Urology
Found in:: Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Urethral sound

Creator:: George Tiemann and Company
Mailhouse, Robert
Meyrowitz Brothers
Van Buren
Published / Created:: ca. early 20th century
Collection Title:: Medical Instrument Collection
Container / Volume:: Box 0182
Image Count:: 1
Description:: 6 Van Buren-brand urethral sounds with American, French and English sizing.
Subject (Name):: Bernard Kosto, M.D.
Subject (Topic):: Urologic Instruments and Urology
Found in:: Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Urethral sounds

Creator:: Harvey, Samuel Clark (1886-1953)
The American Vibrator Company
Published / Created:: ca. early 20th century
Collection Title:: Medical Instrument Collection
Container / Volume:: Box 028
Image Count:: 2
Description:: The Tonjes Aero-Vibrant was a home vibration device that used either compressed air or liquid carbonic acid gas to power the device which would have been delivered to the user's residence—particularly useful if the residence had no electricity (see pa...
Subject (Name):: Bernard Kosto, M.D.
Subject (Topic):: Alternative Medicines and Electrotherapy
Found in:: Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > The Tonjes Aero-Vibrant

Creator:: Hawksley and Son
Steiner, Walter R., MD (1935- )
Published / Created:: 1880-1900
Collection Title:: Medical Instrument Collection
Container / Volume:: Box 054
Image Count:: 3
Alternative Title:: Sphygmomanometer
Description:: A late 19th century desktop blood pressure apparatus, with three small glass bottles fitted into the door (handwritten labels on the bottles identify the contents as absolute alcohol, mentholated spirits, and ink).
Subject (Name):: Bernard Kosto, M.D.
Subject (Topic):: Hematology
Found in:: Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Desktop Sphygmomanometer

Creator:: Hoxie, Thomas Burton, MD, (1794 - 1837) (Cayuga)
Simpson of London
Collection Title:: Medical Instrument Collection
Container / Volume:: Box 024
Image Count:: 4
Description:: A red leather wallet, measuring 15 cm. x 6 cm. x 2 cm. when folded, with tooled edges and engrailed inner flaps and lined with a dark blue leather. Inside the wallet is a probe director and probe, a scalpel, a tenaculum, a curved bistourie, a lancet, ...
Subject (Name):: Bernard Kosto, M.D.
Subject (Topic):: Surgical Instruments
Found in:: Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Surgical Wallet

Creator:: J. H. Gemrig
Published / Created:: ca. early 19th century
Collection Title:: Medical Instrument Collection
Container / Volume:: Box 010
Image Count:: 5
Description:: A leather wallet, lined with a blue fabric, containing seven different instruments, including a pair of angled forceps, an exploring director (manufactured by Hermann); a pair of slide-catch forceps and two small scalpels with wooden handles (manufact...
Subject (Name):: Bernard Kosto, M.D.
Subject (Topic):: Surgical Instruments
Found in:: Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Dissecting Kit

Creator:: 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 c...
Subject (Name):: Bernard Kosto, M.D. and Yale University. School of Medicine.
Subject (Topic):: Obstetrical and Gynecological Instruments
Found in:: Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Cephalotribe

Creator:: 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.
Subject (Topic):: Obstetrical and Gynecological Instruments
Found in:: Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Cranioclast

Creator:: J. Reynders and Company
Sinclair, Howard A.
Published / Created:: 1880
Collection Title:: Medical Instrument Collection
Container / Volume:: Box 002
Image Count:: 1
Description:: 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.
Subject (Name):: Bernard Kosto, M.D.
Subject (Topic):: Amputation
Found in:: Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Surgical instruments

Creator:: John Weiss and Son
Collection Title:: Medical Instrument Collection
Container / Volume:: Box 003
Image Count:: 6
Description:: A mahogany case lined in velvet with several ivory-handled instruments. In addition, there can be found a pair of bone forceps (Codman and Shurtleff), a tuning fork (Meyrowitz), B-D Presto brand thermometer, and a small cloth bag containing a sample o...
Subject (Name):: Bernard Kosto, M.D.
Subject (Topic):: Surgical Instruments
Found in:: Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Ophthalmological Surgery Instrument Set