Tiemann and Company post-mortem set

Tiemann and Company post-mortem set

Medical Instruments

Dissection

Autopsy

George Tiemann & Co.

Wolbach, S. Burt (Simeon Burt), 1880-1954

Hawn, Clinton Van Zandt

Twenty-six autopsy and post-mortem instruments and a paper packet of needles, stored in varnished wooden case. Majority of instruments are most likely nickel plated or stainless steel, some with ebony or baked rubber handles. Kit contains costotome -chisel, Warren's demonstrating knife, reamer, metacarpal saw, amputating tenaculum, four antiseptic amputating scalpels, two cartilage knives, Liston's amputating knife, brain knife, enterotome, curved dissecting scissors, blowpipe, tripod head rest, calvarian clamp, raw hide mallet, calvarian hook, lead mallet, rib shears, amputating bone saws, chisel and two dissecting tweezers. Kit also contains one key.

George Tiemann & Co.

1890-1900

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Warren Anatomical Museum (20344)

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WAM 20344

Post-mortem kit was formerly owned by Harvard Medical School pathologist S. Burt Wolbach. The kit was given by Wolbach to colleague Clinton Van Zandt Hawn when Hawn was Pathologist-in-Chief at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and Associate Professor in Pathology at Harvard Medical School in 1951 and 1952. Wolbach gave Hawn the kit after their work together. Hawn died in 2002 and the kit was donated to the Warren Anatomical Museum by his daughter.

9 H x 35.5 W x 25.5 D cm