A set of French surgical instruments, including a trepanning set with a brush and several trephine bits, a raspatory, and other assorted levators and probes.
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Name):
Bernard Kosto, M.D. and Yale University. School of Medicine.
Codman and Shurtleff Streeter, Edward Clark (1874-1947)
Published / Created:
1870
Collection Title:
Medical Instrument Collection
Container / Volume:
Box 022
Image Count:
6
Description:
A rectangular wooden box made of rosewood and fitted with velvet trays, holding a number of instruments including
a trephining set (including two trephines and a brush), a capital saw, an elevator, a Hey's saw, a catling knife, a pair of bone forceps, a spiral tourniquet, a metacarpal saw, a pair of artery forceps, a tenaculum, two amputating knives, and an amputating scalpel.
Subject (Name):
Bernard Kosto, M.D. and Yale University. School of Medicine.
Evans and Wormull Friedenwald, Jonas Stein (1897-1955) George Tiemann and Company Streeter, Edward Clark (1874-1947)
Published / Created:
ca. 1850-1900
Collection Title:
Medical Instrument Collection
Container / Volume:
Box 096
Image Count:
2
Alternative Title:
Surgical Instruments Set
Description:
A wooden box, with fitted trays lined with a dark red velvet. Inside the lid is the emblem for the George Tiemann and Company—that said, several of the instruments inside are manufactured by the Evans Wormull Company. Among the instruments contained within are a capital saw, several knives, and a trepanning elevator.
A surgical/amputation set—housed in a leather-covered wood case, with fitted, covered trays that hold the instruments. Among those are several saws (bow, chain, Hey’s, and metacarpal), several pairs of bone forceps, a trephine and brush, a Buck’s drill, a bone staff, and two tenaculum. This kit belonged to Dr. Samuel D. Gilbert, of the New Haven Hospital.
A. Lüer Gemric George Tiemann and Company Leach and Green
Published / Created:
19th century
Collection Title:
Medical Instrument Collection
Container / Volume:
Box 022
Image Count:
3
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 both a capital and a Hey’s saw, probes, scalpels, a spiral tourniquet, a post mortem hammer, bone forceps, and a tongue tie.
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.
Five Chinese surgical instruments in a small wooden box lined with paper. Included are a 12.5 cm. pair of scissors, a pair of curved forceps, and three chisel/blade-type tools of varying sizes.
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 (manufactured by Tiemann); a pair of spring-levered forceps (manufactured by Caswell, Hazard, and Company), a double-bladed pocket instrument (manufactured by Codman and Shurtleff). Additionally, a carboard bobbin of Chinese silk (produced by Tsatlee) and a small, additional leather wallet accompany the piece.
Clement, D. H. (Whitney Avenue, New Haven, CT) Jacob H. Gemrig
Published / Created:
1840-1860
Collection Title:
Medical Instrument Collection
Container / Volume:
Box 024
Image Count:
3
Description:
A wooden box, lined with velvet and secured with two hook latches. Inside can be found three scalpels of varying sizes and with bone handles, a retractor hook—also featuring a bone handle, an all-metal scalpel, a metal probe, a pair of scissors, and a pair of needle forceps. The manufacturer's label, J. H. Gemrig of Philadelphia, PA, is glued to the bottom of the box.
A wooden box containing a number of dissection tools, including scissors, forceps, scalpels, and an eye dropper. According to a note included with the piece, this originally belonged to Oliver Wendell Holmes and was subsequently given to Edward Hitchcock (and further family members).
Subject (Name):
Bernard Kosto, M.D., Hitchcock, Edward (1793-1864), Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Sr. (1809-1894), and Yale University. School of Medicine.
A brown leather wallet, lined with silk and velvet. Inside are several surgical tools, including forceps, cannulae, needles, lancets, surgical silk, probes, and lifts.
A Lentz's Compact Operating Case, No. 10, Style A, as seen on page 45 of the "Charles Lentz and Sons' Illustrated Catalogue and Price List". The kit includes, among other things, several surgical instruments, including scalpels, a saw, a tourniquet, as well as a trepanning set.
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 of Lookasine.
A surgical instrument/amputation kit, including a capital saw, a Hey's saw, a pair of bone forceps, two types of tourniquets, a tenaculum, a scalpel, and varying sizes of amputating knives
Subject (Name):
Bernard Kosto, M.D. and Yale University. School of Medicine.
A surgical field kit, of which opens flat with each half closed off. Opening the halves reveal a number of surgical instruments; each with a drawing and a label identifying what they are. Most of the instruments appear to be in the kit, including both a curved and straight bistoury, bullet forceps, a chisel, bone forceps, an elevator, scalpels, an aneurism needle, scissors, a director and probe, a lancet point, a catheter, dressing forceps, and several haemostatic forceps. An emblem on the outer box reads "Medical Dep't USA".
Subject (Name):
Bernard Kosto, M.D. and Yale University. School of Medicine.
A folding leather wallet containing several surgical instruments, including a spatula, several forceps, lancets, bullet scoop, catheter, probe, and needles.
Subject (Name):
Bernard Kosto, M.D., Haven, Samuel Rush, MD (1827-1890), and Yale University. School of Medicine.
A leather-bound wooden box, lined with green cloth. The top layer of the box includes several trephining instruments with wooden handles. The bottom layer consists of several lithotomy instruments.
A chamois-lined tray intended for a boxed set of surgical instruments. There are molded indentations made for up to sixteen instruments, including scalpels, a mallet, forceps, probes, and knives.
Subject (Name):
Bernard Kosto, M.D. and Yale University. School of Medicine.
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.
A black leather wallet, measuring 15 cm. x 6 cm. x 3 cm. when folded and closed. Inside the kit can be found a pair of needle forceps, a pair of haemostatic forceps, a catheter extension, two scalpels, a probe director and tongue tie, a curved bistourie, and a straight finger knife. In addition, there is also a cardboard bobbin of black Chinese surgical silk.
A bifolding leather surgical wallet lined with blue velvet. Inside the wallet are several pieces, including a catheter with an extender, and a pair of locking forceps. Also included are four folding-style pocket instruments that contain tools such as tenaculums, bistouries, and scalpels.
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
Bradley, William S., MD (New Haven, CT) George Tiemann and Company McNeil and Washburn
Published / Created:
1872
Collection Title:
Medical Instrument Collection
Container / Volume:
Box 054
Image Count:
7
Description:
A wooden box, contained in a leather slipcase, with brass trim and fitted with purple velvet trays. Included in the set is a lift, a spiral tourniquet, a trephine set, an elevator, a chisel, a retractor, as well as several specific types of knives, saws, forceps, and scalpels. Additionally, a bill of sale and a handwritten list of the set's instruments are included with the piece.
Subject (Name):
Bernard Kosto, M.D. and Yale University. School of Medicine.
A small field surgical kit, housed in a leather covered wooden box with velvet-lined inserts. Included are a number of scalpels, needles, forceps, a probe and guide, a retractor, a lancet, a tenaculum, a bullet probe, a bullet screw, and a set of chain hooks.
Subject (Name):
Bernard Kosto, M.D. and Yale University. School of Medicine.
A series of five instruments—starting from the left, is a knife with a 1.2 cm. blade affixed to a wooden handle with a brass end.. Next is a long, narrow blade affixed to a bone handle. At center is a spatula-type instrument with a wooden handle. Following this is a knife with a 4 cm. blade affixed to a wooden grip. Lastly there is a knife with a long, narrow blade affixed to a metal handle with a floral pattern.
Subject (Name):
Bernard Kosto, M.D. and Yale University. School of Medicine.
George Tiemann and Company Ticknor, Commander Benjamin, MC, USN, MD (Hon. Yale 1836) Warner, Donald, Esq.
Published / Created:
mid 19th century
Collection Title:
Medical Instrument Collection
Container / Volume:
Box 012
Image Count:
3
Description:
A folding leather wallet containing several surgical instruments, including lancets, scalpels, forceps, probes, a bullet scoop, needles, a spatula, scissors, and a catheter.
Subject (Name):
Bernard Kosto, M.D. and Yale University. School of Medicine.
A trepanning set housed in a leather covered wooden box fitted with velvet lined inserts. Inside can be found a levator, a trephine handle, brush, and several heads, an antrum drill, a raspatory, and forceps.
Subject (Name):
Bernard Kosto, M.D. and Yale University. School of Medicine.
Subject (Topic):
Amputation and Trepanning and Surgical Instruments
A mahogany box with velvet lined inserts, housing a trephining set with both a galt and a crown trephine bit, a detachable handle, a brush, and three sets of chain hooks. Not pictured, but included under the lid, is a scalpel, an elevator, and a raspatory.
Subject (Name):
Bernard Kosto, M.D. and Yale University. School of Medicine.
A wooden box with green velvet-lined fittings that hold the pieces to a trephining set. Included are two trephines, a brush, two Hey's saws, two circular saws, a scalpel, and three tenotomes.
