A child's intubation kit, housed in a leather-coved box with orange-colored inserts. Inside can be found a mouth gag, the insertion device, and seven intubation tubes—depending upon the size of the windpipe and age of the child (a scale is also included for help determine this). This was used in the treatment of diphtheria.
Subject (Name):
Bernard Kosto, M.D. and Yale University. School of Medicine.
Parke, Davis and Company Streeter, Edward Clark (1874-1947)
Published / Created:
ca. early 20th century
Collection Title:
Medical Instrument Collection
Container / Volume:
Box 060
Image Count:
3
Description:
Housed in a cardboard box is a small leather wallet containing twelve corked vials, each with a label indicating the contents within (including apomorphine, morphine, atropine, strychnine, nitroglycerine, strychnine, codeine, heroin, spateine.
Subject (Name):
Bernard Kosto, M.D. and Yale University. School of Medicine.
In a folding leather wallet, there are seventeen thin vials, featuring a paper label with their contents written upon it. Nearly all the vials still have their cork sealer, and many still have some sort of content within, primarily pills.
Subject (Name):
Bernard Kosto, M.D. and Yale University. School of Medicine.
Jackson, Edith B., MD The Halsey Brothers — Chicago Homeopathic Pharmacy
Published / Created:
ca. 1850 - 1900
Collection Title:
Medical Instrument Collection
Container / Volume:
Box 060
Image Count:
4
Description:
A metal case, lined with cloth, and containing a total of 45 small vials, divided on either side of the case by a pair of leather envelopes. Nearly all the vials corked, with paper labels indicating the contents within.
Subject (Name):
Bernard Kosto, M.D. and Yale University. School of Medicine.
Davis, David Daniel (1777-1841) Thoms, Herbert (1885-1972)
Collection Title:
Medical Instrument Collection
Container / Volume:
Box 047
Image Count:
1
Alternative Title:
Forceps
Description:
These forceps are combinations of Hodge, Wallace and Davis forceps. All are single forge metal forceps with English locks and hooked handles. David Davis (1777-1841) was a British obstetrician who designed numerous forceps. Hugh Lenox Hodge (1796-1873), a medical graduate of University of Pennsylvania, lectured at Philadelphia Medical Institute for many years before becoming professor of obstetrics at his alma mater. His forceps were based on French forceps. William Wallace (1835-1896) was a British physician who moved to Brooklyn in 1864. He designed forceps of light construction and Hodge-type hooked handles.
Subject (Name):
Bernard Kosto, M.D., Davis, David Daniel (1777-1841), Hodge, Hugh Lenox (1796-1873), Wallace, William (1835-1896), and Yale University. School of Medicine.
Davis, David Daniel (1777-1841) Thoms, Herbert (1885-1972)
Collection Title:
Medical Instrument Collection
Container / Volume:
Box 094
Image Count:
1
Alternative Title:
Forceps
Description:
These forceps are combinations of Hodge, Wallace and Davis forceps. All are single forge metal forceps with English locks and hooked handles. David Davis (1777-1841) was a British obstetrician who designed numerous forceps. Hugh Lenox Hodge (1796-1873), a medical graduate of University of Pennsylvania, lectured at Philadelphia Medical Institute for many years before becoming professor of obstetrics at his alma mater. His forceps were based on French forceps. William Wallace (1835-1896) was a British physician who moved to Brooklyn in 1864. He designed forceps of light construction and Hodge-type hooked handles.
Subject (Name):
Bernard Kosto, M.D., Davis, David Daniel (1777-1841), Hodge, Hugh Lenox (1796-1873), Wallace, William (1835-1896), and Yale University. School of Medicine.
Davis, David Daniel (1777-1841) Thoms, Herbert (1885-1972)
Collection Title:
Medical Instrument Collection
Container / Volume:
Box 094
Image Count:
1
Alternative Title:
Forceps
Description:
All metal forceps, with a single forge for each handle and blade. The tips of the handle curve outwards. These forceps are combinations of Hodge, Wallace and Davis forceps. All are single forge metal forceps with English locks and hooked handles. David Davis (1777-1841) was a British obstetrician who designed numerous forceps. Hugh Lenox Hodge (1796-1873), a medical graduate of University of Pennsylvania, lectured at Philadelphia Medical Institute for many years before becoming professor of obstetrics at his alma mater. His forceps were based on French forceps. William Wallace (1835-1896) was a British physician who moved to Brooklyn in 1864. He designed forceps of light construction and Hodge-type hooked handles.
Subject (Name):
Bernard Kosto, M.D., Davis, David Daniel (1777-1841), Hodge, Hugh Lenox (1796-1873), Wallace, William (1835-1896), and Yale University. School of Medicine.
Davis, David Daniel (1777-1841) Thoms, Herbert (1885-1972)
Collection Title:
Medical Instrument Collection
Container / Volume:
Box 094
Image Count:
1
Alternative Title:
Forceps
Description:
These forceps are combinations of Hodge, Wallace and Davis forceps. All are single forge metal forceps with English locks and hooked handles. David Davis (1777-1841) was a British obstetrician who designed numerous forceps. Hugh Lenox Hodge (1796-1873), a medical graduate of University of Pennsylvania, lectured at Philadelphia Medical Institute for many years before becoming professor of obstetrics at his alma mater. His forceps were based on French forceps. William Wallace (1835-1896) was a British physician who moved to Brooklyn in 1864. He designed forceps of light construction and Hodge-type hooked handles.
Subject (Name):
Bernard Kosto, M.D., Davis, David Daniel (1777-1841), Hodge, Hugh Lenox (1796-1873), Wallace, William (1835-1896), and Yale University. School of Medicine.
Orme, David (1727-1812) Thoms, Herbert (1885-1972)
Published / Created:
1782
Collection Title:
Medical Instrument Collection
Image Count:
2
Alternative Title:
Forceps
Description:
A pair of metal forceps with wood handles. These forceps, designed in the late eighteenth century by David Orme (1727-1812), William Lowder (d.1801) and John Haighton (1755-1823) of London were quite similar. The models had rounder and wider blades than those of British obstetrician William Smellie.
Subject (Name):
Bernard Kosto, M.D., Haighton, John (1755-1823), Lowder, William (d.1801), Orme, David (1727-1812), and Yale University. School of Medicine.
Orme, David (1727-1812) Thoms, Herbert (1885-1972)
Published / Created:
1790
Collection Title:
Medical Instrument Collection
Container / Volume:
Box 045
Image Count:
2
Alternative Title:
Forceps
Description:
A pair of metal straight and short forceps with a wood handle. These forceps, designed in the late eighteenth century by David Orme (1727-1812), William Lowder (d.1801) and John Haighton (1755-1823) of London were quite similar. The models had rounder and wider blades than those of British obstetrician William Smellie.
Subject (Name):
Bernard Kosto, M.D., Haighton, John (1755-1823), Lowder, William (d.1801), Orme, David (1727-1812), and Yale University. School of Medicine.
Copper-colored frames with a strongly arched nose bridge, with oval lenses, about 3.5 cm wide. Prescription is strong (a lens strength of '8' is noted on one of the stems). Comes with a narrow leather covered cardboard tube case lined with cloth. A handwritten note indicated these once belonged to Grandma Stanton.
Subject (Name):
Bernard Kosto, M.D. and Yale University. School of Medicine.
Plump old man carrying good luck symbols: a bat in left hand, a gourd in right. He is made of soapstone, with a dark wash, and mounted on a wooden base which as also been stained dark brown.
Subject (Name):
Bernard Kosto, M.D. and Yale University. School of Medicine.
George Tiemann and Company Jenks, Edward Wallace (1833-1903) Thoms, Herbert (1885-1972)
Published / Created:
19th century
Collection Title:
Medical Instrument Collection
Container / Volume:
Box 094
Image Count:
1
Description:
These forceps seem to be a combination of Jenk's and Simpson's forceps. They do not have the characteristic finger rests on both handle ends as are found on the Jenk's forceps. Edward Wallace Jenks (1833-1903) received his MD from Castleton Medical College in Vermont. In 1871 he founded the Detroit Medical College where he taught obstetrics. He designed both long and short forceps with finger rests at both ends of the handles.
Subject (Name):
Bernard Kosto, M.D., Jenks, Edward Wallace (1833-1903), and Yale University. School of Medicine.
A male figure carved in soapstone. He is made to be clothed in a loose garment and a pair of sandals. Additionally is he drinking from some sort of vessel.
Subject (Name):
Bernard Kosto, M.D. and Yale University. School of Medicine.
Ferrous frame, hinged arms terminating in rings. Circular lenses, left lens missing. Right lens has positive strength (for hyperopia), and is scratched. Rusted surface. Arms do not open straight. Front part of frame is bowed the wrong way. Width 11.5cm, arm sections 10cm and 6cm long. All six hinges held by screws. Flip-top case welded from ferrous plate, hinged at one edge on a fine screw. Pointed oval ends. Length 13.5cm, width 4.5cm. Both the body of the tube and its end-cap are engraved with lines around the mouth. Rusted surface, especially interior - exterior is relatively clean. Late 18th century. Frame appears all original.
Subject (Name):
Bernard Kosto, M.D. and Yale University. School of Medicine.
This is a partial endoscope set housed in a leather covered box with velvet lined inserts. Included in the set is a single ear speculum (two others appear to be missing, an eye piece in which to attach the speculum, a tongue depressor (its detachable lig
Subject (Name):
Bernard Kosto, M.D. and Yale University. School of Medicine.
Davis, David Daniel (1777-1841) P. H. Schmidt Thoms, Herbert (1885-1972)
Collection Title:
Medical Instrument Collection
Container / Volume:
Box 047
Image Count:
1
Description:
A metal spoon with serrated edge and wood handle; engraved "PH Schmidt". Aid for removing obstructed fetus.London obstetrician David Daniel Davis (1777-1841) prescribed the careful use of these instruments only as a last resort. This spoon has a sharp, small, serrated edge and was probably used in combination with a crochet decapitator.
Subject (Name):
Bernard Kosto, M.D., Davis, David Daniel (1777-1841), and Yale University. School of Medicine.
