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Digital photograph of a doctors bag and its contents, arranged on a gray counter. Included in the image is a wooden Laennec-style monaural stethoscope, as well as many miscellaneous surgical instruments.
A black leather doctors bag, donated by Mrs. J.Q.A. Daniels in January 1965. The case measures 45 x 16 x 12.5 cm and has a soft leather liner. The bag shows heavy wear, but the contents are in fair condition. The bag contains: 1) two trephines with wing handles, 2) two oblong, flat metal plates, 3) metal and glass syringe with three-ring handle, 4) nasal snare with three-ring handle, 5) ebony-handled reflex hammer, 6) tenaculum or bullet forceps, 7) wooden monaural stethoscope, 8) ebony-handled measurement sound, 9) two retractors, similar to Parkers general, 10) Higbies vaginal speculum, 11) Graves' vaginal speculum, 12) two curved dressing forceps, 13) Palmers uterine dilator, 14) metal uterine douche with bulb end, 15) axis handle for obstetrical forceps, 16) Thoma([a-z])' craniotomy forceps, 17) Steeles septum punch, and 18) two metal bone curettes.
Medical Museum Collection, Shelf 4C4
A black leather doctors bag, donated by Mrs. J.Q.A. Daniels in January 1965. The case measures 45 x 16 x 12.5 cm and has a soft leather liner. The bag shows heavy wear, but the contents are in fair condition. The bag contains: 1) two trephines with wing handles, 2) two oblong, flat metal plates, 3) metal and glass syringe with three-ring handle, 4) nasal snare with three-ring handle, 5) ebony-handled reflex hammer, 6) tenaculum or bullet forceps, 7) wooden monaural stethoscope, 8) ebony-handled measurement sound, 9) two retractors, similar to Parkers general, 10) Higbies vaginal speculum, 11) Graves' vaginal speculum, 12) two curved dressing forceps, 13) Palmers uterine dilator, 14) metal uterine douche with bulb end, 15) axis handle for obstetrical forceps, 16) Thoma([a-z])' craniotomy forceps, 17) Steeles septum punch, and 18) two metal bone curettes.
Medical Museum Collection, Shelf 4C4
