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  • Seventeenth Century Skeleton Carved From Ivory

    Description:
    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

  • Brass screw tourniquet

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

  • Nineteenth Century Bronze Ecorche or Muscleman

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

  • Nineteenth Century Bronze Ecorche or Muscleman

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

  • Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans and Thomas M. Simkins

    Description:
    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:
    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:
    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:
    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

  • Chinese ivory manikin

    Description:
    Chinese ivory anatomical manikin which was used by upper class women to indicate to their physician the site of their problem. The top-knot from her hair has been removed to reveal a stopper.
    Date:
    17th or 18th century

  • Ivory Janus figure

    Description:
    Ivory Janus figure of a woman and a skeleton reflecting the "momento mori" theme.
    Date:
    undated

  • Female manikin with plates removed

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

  • View 3 of manikins

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

  • View 2 of manikins

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

  • View 1 of manikins

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

  • Ivory anatomical manikins

    Description:
    Close-up of male and female pair of standing ivory anatomical manikins.
    Date:
    17th or 18th century

  • Manikin with books

    Description:
    Standing female ivory manikin featured by volumes from the Trent Collection.
    Date:
    17th or 18th century

  • Three ivory manikins

    Description:
    Three standing ivory manikins: two women and a man.
    Date:
    17th or 18th century

  • Mansur

    Description:
    17th century copy of a late 14th century manuscript treatise on anatomy showing a diagram of the reproductive system. Slide 7. Located at: qS Mansur 15th century.
    Date:
    17th century

  • Mansur

    Description:
    17th century copy of a late 14th century Persian manuscript treatise on anatomy showing a diagram of the arteries. Slide 6. Located at: qS Mansur 15th century.
    Date:
    17th century

  • Mansur

    Description:
    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

  • Mansur

    Description:
    17th century copy of a late 14th century Persian manuscript treatise on anatomy showing a diagram of the muscles. Slide 4. Located at: qS Mansur 15th century.
    Date:
    17th century

  • Mansur

    Description:
    17th century copy of a late 14th century Persian manuscript treatise on anatomy showing a diagram of the nerves. Slide 3. Located at: qS Mansur 15th century.
    Date:
    17th century

  • Mansur

    Description:
    17th century copy of a late 14th century Persian manuscript treatise on anatomy showing a diagram of the bones. Slide 2. Located at: qS Mansur 15th century.
    Date:
    17th century

  • Mansur

    Description:
    17th century copy of a late 14th century Persian manuscript on anatomy showing a diagram of the veins. Slide 5. Located at: qS Mansur 15th century.
    Date:
    17th century

  • Roman Surgical Instruments

    Description:
    Bronze Roman surgical instruments.
    Date:
    3rd century ca.

  • Nursing Can

    Description:
    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.
    Date:
    undated

  • Trephine or Trepan

    Description:
    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

  • Nineteenth Century Bronze Ecorche or Muscleman

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

  • Wound Man

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

  • Surgical Saw

    Description:
    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.
    Date:
    undated

  • Chest of Medical Instruments

    Description:
    Chest of medical instruments. Parts of a trephine or trepan as well as lancets and a small saw are visible.
    Date:
    undated

  • Scarificator

    Description:
    Twelve blade scarificator in a brass, box-shaped case and a three blade lancet for bloodletting.
    Date:
    undated

  • Slide Viewer

    Description:
    Slide viewer with an ivory handle.
    Date:
    undated

  • Manuscript inventory of property and accounts

    Description:
    Full page illumination showing the Virgin Mary sheltering the sick and needy under her cloak. The volume can be found at: fS MS Ospedale. 1550.; View 2. Publisher: Perugia
    Date:
    circa 1550

  • Manuscript inventory of property and accounts

    Description:
    Full page illumination showing the Virgin Mary sheltering the sick and needy under her cloak. The volume can be found at: fS MS Ospedale. 1550.; View 1. Publisher: Perugia
    Date:
    circa 1550

  • Valentine Mott

    Description:
    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.
    Date:
    undated