Post-mortem set in wooden case, 1860 - 1880 [WAM 20441]

Post-mortem set in wooden case, 1860 - 1880 [WAM 20441]

Medical instruments and apparatus

post-mortem

postmortem

Autopsy

Post-mortem set of fifteen instruments.

Post-mortem set with fifteen instruments stored in wooden case with green velvet interior. Instruments are Tiemann and case is Codman & Shrutleff. Set includes costotome chisel, post-mortem hammer, steel handled cartilage knife, steel handled cartridge dissecting hook, textured ebony handled cartilage knife, three ebony handled dissecting scalpels, dissecting forceps, chain hook, enterotome, dissecting scissors, and #5 post-mortem knife, saw, and reamer with one insertable handle.

Codman & Shurtleff (Case)

Tiemann (Instruments)

1860 - 1880

George G. Tucker also donated a plaster cast of left hand with lead palsy (Warren Anatomical Museum Catalog Number 01629), a plaster cast of cancerous rectum (Warren Anatomical Museum Catalog Number 02310), and a collection of gall stones (Warren Anatomical Museum Catalog Number 07536).

Medical Instruments, Equipment, and Devices

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medical equipment

physical object

Warren Anatomical Museum Catalog Number: 20441

Warren Anatomical Museum Accession Number: 2010.002

George Grenville Tucker graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1855. He died in 1883 and practiced in Westfield, MA. The post-mortem set appears to have been used throughout his career given the several eras of Tiemann stamp represented. The kit was inventoried on 03/23/2010.

medical equipment

5.715 H x 26.035 W x 11.43 D cm