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  • Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans and Thomas M. Simkins

    Description/Abstract: 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...
    Date: April 1956

  • Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans and Thomas M. Simkins

    Description/Abstract: 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...
    Date: April 1956

  • Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans and Thomas M. Simkins

    Description/Abstract: 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...
    Date: April 1956

  • Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans and Thomas M. Simkins

    Description/Abstract: 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...
    Date: April 1956

  • Wound Man

    Description/Abstract: A healing fetish figure from the Bakongo people of the lower Congo region of Africa. The fetish is a wooden "wound man" called a "ma moganga."
    Date: 1850-1899

  • Medicine Chest

    Description/Abstract: Medicine chest either for use in home or by physician. Contains an assortment of powders, tonics, salves, scales, and a mortar and pestle. England.
    Date: circa 1830

  • Medicine Chest

    Description/Abstract: Medicine chest with a copy of a home medical manual.
    Date: 1800-1820

  • Nineteenth Century Bronze Ecorche or Muscleman

    Description/Abstract: Bronze ecorce or muscleman, back view.
    Date: 19th century

  • Nineteenth Century Bronze Ecorche or Muscleman

    Description/Abstract: Bronze ecorche or muscleman, front view, left side.
    Date: 19th Century

  • Nineteenth Century Bronze Ecorche or Muscleman

    Description/Abstract: Bronze ecorche or muscleman, front view right side.
    Date: 19th century

  • Brass screw tourniquet

    Description/Abstract: Brass screw tourniquet used to arrest hemorrhaging from an open wound. Pads are covered with chamois leather. Signed by Figini Brescia.
    Date: 18th century

  • Brass screw tourniquet

    Description/Abstract: Brass screw tourniquet used to arrest hemorrhaging from an open wound. Pads are covered with chamois leather. Signed by Figini Brescia.
    Date: 18th century

  • Trephine or Trepan

    Description/Abstract: 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...
    Date: 18th century

  • Seventeenth Century Skeleton Carved From Ivory

    Description/Abstract: 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...
    Date: circa 1650

  • View 3 of manikins

    Description/Abstract: Various groupings of ivory anatomical manikins in the Trent Collection. All are of European origin. View 3.
    Date: 17th or 18th century

  • Mansur

    Description/Abstract: 17th century copy of a late 14th century Persian manuscript treatise on anatomy showing an illuminated title page. Slide 1. Located at: qS Mansur 15th century.
    Date: 17th century

  • View 2 of manikins

    Description/Abstract: Various groupings of ivory anatomical manikins in the Trent Collection. All are of European origin. View 2.
    Date: 17th or 18th century

  • Female manikin with plates removed

    Description/Abstract: Single female ivory anatomical manikin of seventeenth or eighteenth century European origin. Plate has been removed to reveal the contents of her thorax and abdomen.
    Date: 17th or 18th century

  • Female manikin with chest removed

    Description/Abstract: Chest removed from female standing ivory anatomical manikin to reveal contents of thorax and abdomen.
    Date: 17th or 18th century

  • View 1 of manikins

    Description/Abstract: Various groupings of ivory anatomical manikins in the Trent Collection. All are of European origin. View 1.
    Date: 17th or 18th century