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Catalog of medical instruments, nursing supplies and dressing materials of the Partnership of P. I. Makhin and Co. in Moscow).  Moscow, 1914
Catalog of medical instruments P. I. Makhin & Co. v Moskve

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.

Edward Weck, the Catalogue of the Surgical Instruments,  Hospital Supplies and Specialties
Weck | Surgical Instruments | Hospital Supplies and Specialties

USA, 1961

Weck | Surgical Instruments | Hospital Supplies and Specialties

Articles

Brambilla, Giovanni Alessandro. Instrumentarium chirurgicum militare Austriacum, Vienna, 1782.
Dating antique catalogs of medical instruments

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.