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  • Chest of Medical Instruments

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

  • Ivory Janus figure

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

  • Nursing Can

    Description/Abstract: 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

  • Scarificator

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

  • Slide Viewer

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

  • Surgical Saw

    Description/Abstract: 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

  • Valentine Mott

    Description/Abstract: 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