Trepanation and Amputation Surgical Cased Set
The rare French amputation cased set, late XVIII century. The mahogany case contains the typical instruments of a trauma and military surgeon, such as hand drills, trephine heads, amputation saw, brush to clean the operative field. Most of the instruments have ebony handles. The case has two compartments lined with red velvet, original key is preserved.
Content
Mahogany case with brass handle in closed position is even to the top surface. Case contains the following instruments:
Lower compartment:
- Petit's type tourniquet
- three trephines
- trepanation drill with black wood handle to accommodate trephines
- brush to clean the area of surgery and remove any debris or loose fragments of bone
- one key-formed perforator to make an initial hole where the sharp pin of the trephines will be fixed
- five elevators and spatulas for lifting or separating tissues, such as the scalp or the periosteum (the membrane covering the skull bones), or for removing small fragments of bone
- two flat drill bats
Upper compartment:
- an amputation saw with ebony handle
- two Liston amputation knives
(some other instruments are missing)
