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Description:: Sideways orientation of title on cover.
Created:: 1850
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Special Collections and Rare Books.
Last Updated:: 2018-11-28

Description:: Content warning: This description contains discussions of instruments used in cases of abortion and stillbirth. Decapitating scissors. Heavy-duty metal scissors with long, straight shank, blunt blades, and loop handles. Embryotomy is a destructive operation on a fetus to break up the body in the uterus when safe delivery or delivery via Cesarean...
Creator:: Dubois, Antoine, 1756-1837
Contributor:: Waldek & Wagner (Prague, Czech Republic)
Created:: 1850 - 1900?
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Page Count:: 7
Last Updated:: 2025-03-14

Description:: Feeder. Boat-style invalid feeder in the shape of a duck; spout is shaped like a duck's head and the body is modeled in to the shape of feathers; semicircular opening on top distal end of feeder; C-shaped handle at distal end of feeder, in the place where tail feathers might go. Although the origin of this feeder is uncertain, duck and bird-sha...
Created:: 1850 - 1900?
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Page Count:: 4
Last Updated:: 2025-03-14

Elephant Fights

Creator:: Parlby, Fanny Parkes
Created:: 1850
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Ames Library of South Asia.
Last Updated:: 2017-11-16

Description:: Apothecary jar. Cylindrical white porcelain jar with gold decoration and black lettering; decoration includes framing wreaths of wheat, leaves and ribbon, the bowl of Hygeia flanked by laurel sprigs, the serpent of Epidaurus on the staff of Aesculapius, and two gold stars; lid is circular with concave sides and is capped with a gold-painted roun...
Contributor:: Gosse à Paris (Paris, France)
Created:: 1850 - 1900?
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Page Count:: 7
Last Updated:: 2025-03-14

Description:: Apothecary jar. Ceramic jar with speckled gray ground; body of jar is round with a flange near base of neck and flared neck in a funnel shape; jar decoration is blue, green, red , yellow and black; blue frame with botanical ornament surrounds label; red and yellow crown with three yellow and green circles sits atop frame. Includes manufacturer m...
Created:: 1850 - 1950?
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Page Count:: 6
Last Updated:: 2025-03-14

Creator:: Walling, Henry Francis, 1825-1888
Created:: 1850 - 1859
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, John R. Borchert Map Library.
Last Updated:: 2021-05-04

Description:: Apothecary jar. Cylindrical white porcelain jar with gold decoration and black lettering; decoration includes framing wreaths of wheat, leaves and ribbon, the bowl of Hygeia flanked by laurel sprigs, the serpent of Epidaurus on the staff of Aesculapius, and two gold stars; lid is circular with concave sides and is capped with a round finial. Inc...
Contributor:: Gosse à Paris (Paris, France)
Created:: 1850 - 1900?
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Page Count:: 9
Last Updated:: 2025-03-14

Description:: Thermometer. Glass and mercury thermometer with metal cap at one end topped with a round knob; cap threads into accompanying tubular metal case. Includes manufacturer markings:"Maxima 1.5 Fahrenheit -- 1 Minute -- Thugimag," and "079406 DR C22."
Created:: 1850 - 1920?
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Page Count:: 7
Last Updated:: 2025-03-14

Description:: Tongue depressor. Tongue depressor has hinged, flat metal portion of the depressor with a rounded end and circular fenestration followed by a slimmer, rectangular portion to hinge; flat, slim rectangular shank; carved ivory handle with crosshatched texture, rounded proximal end, and two depressions in either side of handle near top.
Contributor:: George Tiemann & Co (New York City, New York)
Created:: 1850 - 1880?
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Page Count:: 3
Last Updated:: 2025-03-14