Oil portrait of Valentine Mott, M.D. who was a pioneer vascular surgeon famous for ligation of great vessels for aneurysm. He was considered the leading American surgeon of the first half of the nineteenth century.
Trephine or Trepan was a surgical instrument used to open the cranium. It was essentially a device to drill a circular hole in the head. The example pictured here had perpendicular teeth, a center pin and a screw button in the shaft of the barrel to...
Surgical saw with elaborately tooled frame handle. It is displayed with a copy of Gersdorff's "Feldbuch der Wundtartzney" which has been opened to an illustration of a surgeon using a similar saw.
Early seventeenth century skeleton carved in bas-relief from a single piece of ivory. The figure is based on the second skeleton in Vesalius' Fabrica and is surrounded by representations of the various classes of society symbolizing the transitoriness...
The nursing can, or mammele, was an early infant feeding device handmade from tin. It was used by German settlers in southeastern Pennsylvania and thought to be indigenous to that region.
Mrs. Semans and Thomas M. Simkins, Curator of rare books at Perkins Library, in the library of her home before the Trent Collection was moved to the Duke University Hospital Library. The case with the ivory manikins is in the foreground and the bronze...
Mrs. Semans and Thomas M. Simkins, Curator of rare books at Perkins Library, in the library of her home before the Trent Collection was moved to the Duke University Hospital Library. The case with the ivory manikins is in the foreground and the bronze...