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Medical Museum Collection, Box 12
One of four digital photographs (with 77-159_7_94a.jpg, 77-159_7_94c.jpg, and 77-159_7_94d.jpg) of a collection of miscellaneous medical instruments. This image shows a portion of the collection, including catheters, sounds, a box of horsehair, a hypodermic kit, and a funnel.
ca. 1920's
A collection of miscellaneous medical instruments, donated by Mrs. W.H. Becker in August 1948. The items are all in generally good condition. The collection includes: 1) chrome mouth gag, 2) Pynchons nasal speculum, 3) three hemostats, 4) two tongue depressors, 5) Gerster-Lowmans bone clamp, 6) Graves' vaginal speculum, 7) metal syringe with palm handle, 8) curved tissue scissors, 9) Skillerns curved phimosis forceps, 10) hook-tipped scissors, 11) spoon curette, 12) measurement sound, 13) twelve curved catheters, 14) Seeleys hard rubber pile pipe, 15) metal-handled obstretrical forceps, 16) rubber-handled obstretrical forceps, 17) ebony-handled obstretrical forceps, 18) two soft rubber catheters, 19) eleven scalpel blades, 20) three minor surgery knives, 21) tonsillotome with three-ring handle, 22) three tweezer forceps, 23) metal case, containing three hypodermic needles and four irrigation tips, 24) tenaculum forceps with twin tines, 25) ear speculum, 26) three twisted wire probes, 27) a box of horsehair strands, 28) needle probe, 29) lancet, 30) Ayers tweezer-type chalazion forceps, 31) surgical tubing clamp, 32) double-ended flat clamp, 33) urethral director, 34) eleven urethral sounds, 35) chrome funnel, 36) long glass pipette, 37) two glass stirring rods, 38) three long threaded needles, 39) nasal knife (blade broken), 40) open loop curette, 41) three olive-tipped probes, 42) two broken forceps pieces, 43) two suture needles, and 44) three hypodermic needles.
One of four digital photographs (with 77-159_7_94a.jpg, 77-159_7_94c.jpg, and 77-159_7_94d.jpg) of a collection of miscellaneous medical instruments. This image shows a portion of the collection, including catheters, sounds, a box of horsehair, a hypodermic kit, and a funnel.
ca. 1920's
A collection of miscellaneous medical instruments, donated by Mrs. W.H. Becker in August 1948. The items are all in generally good condition. The collection includes: 1) chrome mouth gag, 2) Pynchons nasal speculum, 3) three hemostats, 4) two tongue depressors, 5) Gerster-Lowmans bone clamp, 6) Graves' vaginal speculum, 7) metal syringe with palm handle, 8) curved tissue scissors, 9) Skillerns curved phimosis forceps, 10) hook-tipped scissors, 11) spoon curette, 12) measurement sound, 13) twelve curved catheters, 14) Seeleys hard rubber pile pipe, 15) metal-handled obstretrical forceps, 16) rubber-handled obstretrical forceps, 17) ebony-handled obstretrical forceps, 18) two soft rubber catheters, 19) eleven scalpel blades, 20) three minor surgery knives, 21) tonsillotome with three-ring handle, 22) three tweezer forceps, 23) metal case, containing three hypodermic needles and four irrigation tips, 24) tenaculum forceps with twin tines, 25) ear speculum, 26) three twisted wire probes, 27) a box of horsehair strands, 28) needle probe, 29) lancet, 30) Ayers tweezer-type chalazion forceps, 31) surgical tubing clamp, 32) double-ended flat clamp, 33) urethral director, 34) eleven urethral sounds, 35) chrome funnel, 36) long glass pipette, 37) two glass stirring rods, 38) three long threaded needles, 39) nasal knife (blade broken), 40) open loop curette, 41) three olive-tipped probes, 42) two broken forceps pieces, 43) two suture needles, and 44) three hypodermic needles.