Surgical kit, 19th century

Surgical kit, 19th century

W. and H. Hutchinson

Wood

Steel

Surgical instruments

Bone and bones

Surgical kit in polished wooden box. Box has brass shield plate on lid and brass shield design around lock. Box is lined with purple and brown velvet. Interior of lid opens and contains large ebony-handled serrated bone saw with vertical grooves to prevent clogging. Other side of box contains two brass and brown, green, red, and white striped textile tourniquets, ebony-handled "hey" saw, ebony-handled curved pick, one pentagon-end lenticular, one broken elevator with bone-filing end, one piece of cloth, one piece of cork, and one ivory-handled bone brush.

W. and H. Hutchinson

19th century

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Warren Anatomical Museum: 21414

object

1 surgical kit

Medical Equipment

physical object

Warren Anatomical Museum Catalog Number: 21414

This surgical kit was created in the 19th century at least in part by the firm of W. and H. Hutchinson in Sheffield, England. It was found in the collections of the Warren Anatomical Museum.

Surgical kit

14 W x 43 D x 7 H cm