A worn leather wallet containing a few instruments, including a pair of hooks, a catheter, a curette, and two undetermined pieces. Also included is a cardboard spool of silk, some needles, and a small folding leather card holder.
A surgical instrument/amputation kit, in a wooden box with several velvet-lined trays and inserts. Included in the kit are several scalpels and bistouries, a spiral tourniquet, a number of forceps, needles, a metacarpal saw, a capital saw, a trephining set, spatula, probes and probe director, and a pair of retractors.
Subject (Name):
Bernard Kosto, M.D. and Yale University. School of Medicine.
Subject (Topic):
Amputation and Trepanning and Surgical Instruments
A surgical pump, intended for irrigation and aspiration purposes. Stored in a locking leather covered suitcase lined with purple velvet, the device also included a number of accessories, including cupping bulbs, trocars, and irrigating nozzles.
A wooden box, lined with velvet and lockable (the key is included with the set). Inside are two bone-handled scalpels, a wooden-handled scalpel, a retractor hook, a pair of large needle forceps, a metal scalpel, a chain hook with three hooks, a probe, and a bistourie. Beneath the lid of the box is a hidden compartment that holds a pair of scissors and a pair of smaller needle forceps.
A leather covered wooden box with fitted trays lined with silk and velvet. Inside is an ivory handle and five assorted surgical tools that can be screwed into the handle.
Subject (Name):
Bernard Kosto, M.D. and Yale University. School of Medicine.
A black leather wallet, measuring 15 cm. x 7.5 cm. x 3 cm. when folded and closed. Inside the kit can be found a pair of haemostatic forceps, two scalpels, two point curved bistouries, a blunt curved bistourie, two catheters—one straight, one curved—with a single shared extender, a probe, an ear spoon and hook, and a pair of needle forceps. Additionally, there are two raw leather pads where the scalpels and bistouries are stored—this is to prevent any damage to or from the blades.
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, two types of Chinese surgical silk, and several needles.
