Surgical kit owned and used by Damascus (Syria) - based physician Habib Cachecho (1868-1938), late 19th century.

Surgical kit owned and used by Damascus (Syria) - based physician Habib Cachecho (1868-1938), late 19th century.

Stafford House Committee surgical kit used in the Ottomon military.

Ottoman and post-Ottoman world

Surgery

Damascus (Syria)

Surgical kit with a purple velvet interior and a wooden case. Forty one instruments are included in kit.

Surgical kit with a purple velvet interior and a wooden case. Kit belonged to Damascus (Syria) - based physician Habib Cachecho (1868-1938). It was supplied by the Stafford House Committee, and used by Cachecho during his service in the Ottoman military. Cachecho received his medical degree from St. Joseph’s University of Medicine in Beirut in 1891, and practiced in Damascus after his military service.

Stafford House Committee for the Relief of Sick and Wounded Turkish Soldiers

Riad Cachecho

Late 19th century

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Kit belonged to Damascus (Syria) - based physician Habib Cachecho (1868-1938). It was supplied to Dr. Cachecho by the Stafford House Committee, and used by him during his service in the Ottoman military. Dr. Cachecho held onto the kit throughout his life in Damascus and later gave it to his grandson, Riad Cachecho, M.D. Dr. Riad Cachecho donated the kit to the Warren Anatomical Museum in 2019.