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France, 1820
The rare French amputation kit, early 19 century, contains the typical instruments of a trauma and military surgeon, such as brace and bit cranial trephine, elevators and rugines, amputation saw, brush to clean the operative field. The case has two compartments, has original key.
England, 1800
A Pocket Case for Surgical Instruments covered by green-stained shagreen, English, ca. 1800, with silver metal mounts, hinged cover engraved letter 'C', with slots for forceps, lancets, probes and others minor surgical instruments. Now is filled with several later instruments: lancet with tortoise shell handle, a probe and blunt needle. A part of shagreen on the the lid is detached.
USA, 1870
American Amputation and trepanation cased set, by Shepard & Dudley NY, late XIX century. The wooden case contains the typical instruments of a trauma surgeon, such as amputation saw, trephine head with handle, screw tourniquet. The amputation saw and three amputation knives have ebony handles, the rest hand instruments like scalpels and hook have ivory handles. The case has two compartments lined with violet velvet. On the cover of the upper compartment, the inscription "SHEPARD & DUDLEY * NEW YORK".
France, 1880
Amputation instrument case by Charrière/COLLIN & Cie, dating from around 1880. The case is complete with its set of eight knives, two curved needles on handles, one large curved needle without a handle, large bow amputation saw with a spare blade, smaller metacarpal saw, powerful detachable bone forceps, small clamping forceps and red haemostatic band, a pair of forceps and a curved needle. All the instruments including saws have ebony handles. All instruments have markings of the house of Charrière: Charrière á Paris or COLLIN & Cie.
Austria, 1785
A collection of 65 sets of surgical instruments made by Viennese craftsman Joseph Malliard under the direction of Giovanni Alessandro Brambilla, an Italian-born Austrian surgeon eighteenth-century innovator in military surgery. Today, this collection, known as the “Instrumentarium Chirurgicum Militare Austriacum” is on display at the Josephinum Museum, Vienna
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Russia, 1914
Каталог медицинских инструментов, принадлежностей для ухода за больными и перевязочных материалов Товарищества П. И. Махина и Ко в Москве (Catalog of medical instruments, nursing supplies and dressing materials of the Partnership of P. I. Makhin and Co. in Moscow). Year of publication: 1914. Condition: significant traces of use, Missing title page and the first unnumbered and the first 5 pages, as well as the last unnumbered pages. Page 6 is badly damaged. Half cloth binding of its time, traces of unprofessional restoration. First and last pages damaged, heavily soiled, inner pages in good condition. Here and there contemporary marginalia and underlinings. Size: 170x245 mm. Pages: 912. Publisher: Tipo-lithography Tva I.N. Kushnerev and Co. The drawings by engraver Kalugin A.I.
USA, 1961
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Articles
Establishing the publication date of a medical trade catalogs is not always trivial. Many medical instrument manufacturers did without catalogs for many years – there was simply no need for them. Then, when the first trade catalogs of medical and surgical instruments appeared, they often omitted the date of their publications. There are several indications that can be used to determine the approximate year of publication of catalogs, which are discussed in this article.
The tourniquet is considered by many to be one of the most significant inventions in the history of surgery, having saved millions of soldiers and trauma victims. The earliest documented methods of blood control emerged in ancient India, as evidenced by Sushruta's ligatures, and referenced by Roman medici for vessel tying and cauterisation, in addition to external limb binding. Medieval and Renaissance barber-surgeons utilised tight bands, and in the 18th century, Jean-Louis Petit developed the screw tourniquet. The evolution of emergency care has been characterised by significant developments, with innovations ranging from Esmarch's elastic bandage to modern C-A-T devices.