Glass bottle. Amber glass cylindrical bottle with a long neck and flanged rim; mold marks running up the side of the bottle. Includes manufacturer markings:"H."
Created:
1870 - 1950?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Glass bottle. Amber glass cylindrical bottle with a long, side neck and flanged rim; mold marks running up the side of the bottle; wide cork stopper in bottle neck.
Created:
1870 - 1950?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Amputation set. Purple velvet lined wooden box with lid, two metal hinges, a key, and a keyed lock; top surface of box has a plaque; lid houses a Hey's saw, lifting-back saw, Satterlee's capital saw, a conical trephine, and a brush in a form fitted compartment; divider is missing; also included in box: tourniquet, two scalpels, two knives, and a...
Contributor:
Shepard & Dudley
Created:
1870 - 1894?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Amputation Set. Red velvet-lined wooden box with lid, three metal hinges with a lock and key enclosure; top surface of box has an engraved metal plaque; lid houses one Satterlee's capital saw, Galt's trephine, trephine handle, and a Caswell-Hazard & Co., W.F. Ford lifting back metacarpal saw in a form fitted compartment; also included in box: on...
Contributor:
Shepard & Dudley (New York, New York)
Created:
1870 - 1880?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Amputation set. Red velvet lined wooden box with lid, divider, and three metal hinges; top surface of box has an engraved plaque; front of box has a lock and key; also included in box: Satterlee's capital saw, lifting back metacarpal saw, trepanning elevator and raspatory, duck-bill sequestrum forcep, tourniquet, tenaculum, scalpel, wax, and str...
Contributor:
W.M. Autenrieth (Cincinnati, Ohio)
Created:
1870 - 1900?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Content warning: This description contains discussions of instruments used in cases of abortion and stillbirth. Obstetrical perforator. Steel, scissor-style perforator with shank in a rounded, double-crossover style; blades have rounded sides, a beveled edge, and sharp point at end; small notch at start of blades. Indecipherable maker's mark. De...
Created:
1870 - 1910?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Scale. Brass steelyard-style scale; brass column base; brass beam with poise and 50 gram graduated scale with counterpoise; shorter end of beam has a hook to hang a small brass measuring cylinder. Includes manufacturer markings:"Curson & Mundy -- N. Y." A chondrometer is a specific type of scale used to measure samples of grains such as corn, ba...
Contributor:
Curson & Mundy (New York)
Created:
1870 - 1875?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Scale. Small brass hand scale; scale consists of an equal arm brass beam from which two small polished horn pans are suspended by three pieces of braided copper-colored string on either end; in the middle of the beam there is an indicator needle which measures when the weight of the pans is in equilibrium; scale is held from small metal loop at ...
Created:
1870 - 1910?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Suppository mold. Brass mold with two rectangular pieces held together by a hinge; the inside of each piece has 6 arched cylindrical grooves; the two pieces are held together by a screw attached to a hing that can move 90 degrees; in the upright position, a knob at the top of the screw can be tightened down to hold the two pieces of the mold tog...
Created:
1870 - 1900?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.