Civil War Medical Instruments

Various bullet forceps extractors and locaters. Provides the civil war medical tools and instruments particularly used for surgical procedures.


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Civil war medical instruments. Above is an excellent example of this Civil War set in this collection. COLLECTIONCivil War Medical and Surgical Antique Medical Instruments. Chicopee Mass on the blade and also on the brass scabbard.

ANTIQUE CIVIL WAR USA ARMY MEDICAL BOTTLE GREEN IN COLOR MARKED USA. Cloth pads soaked in ether were placed inside the neck of the ether cone on the cross bar visible in second picture above. A surgical set by Wade and Ford typical of those used in the field during the Civil War.

The Civil War instrument manufactures in many cases were contracted by the Union governments Army Medical Department to supply the Army with specified surgical sets and may or may not be marked USA. Antiquarian medical books in very good to excellent condition. Tiemann Hernstein Otto Gemrig Kern Snowden Kolbe Helmold Kuemerle Leypoldt Teufel Wirz Wiegand Snowden Codman Shurtleff Rees Wade Ford Wocher Brinkerhoff.

This lovely instrument looks like a hacksaw and had only one purpose. Antiques most sought after include the following from before 1880s. Pictorial Encyclopedia of Civil War Medical Instruments and Equipment Vol.

Anything marked USA HOSPITAL DEPT or USA MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. ANTIQUE CIVIL WAR MEDICAL BOTTLES AUBURN BROWN IN COLOR MARKED USA. Among the more notable achievements of his tenure as surgeon general was the organization of the Confederate Medical Department the establishment of examining boards for surgeons and assistant surgeons the construction of military hospital huts or one-story pavilion hospitals and the establishment of drug hospital supplies and surgical instruments factories around the Confederacy to supply the Armys needs from Civil Practice to Civil War by The Medical.

It was used to cut off arms and legs and feet and hands. Discover and save your own Pins on Pinterest. Instruments were more simple and less numerous in the sets.

A full 75 of surgeries in the field were amputations. Civil War Medical and Surgical. The American Civil War Medical and Surgical Antiques site offers authentic medical and surgical antiques for sale.

Differentiating and Authenticating Civil War Medical Tools and Sets Union Army surgical sets whatever their purpose usually feature ebony horn wood or ivory-handled tools in ornate mahogany cases outfitted with plush interiors. MI17 Medical Service sword a Civil War dress sword marked Ames Mfg. Etched blade of floral pattern and military trophies.

An American design dating from the Civil War era this reproduction 100 copper ether cone is fully functional. The other tools are tourniquets and chain saw. You know what that purpose is of course.

Hospl Dept or USA Hospital Department. The site contains over nine thousand photos and nine hundred pages of articles on Civil War medicine surgical and medical antiques. ANTIQUE CIVIL WAR AQUA GLASS BOTTLES MARKED USA HOSPITAL DEPT.

Civil War Medical Tools are supply to the soldiers and army hospitals for the medical surgeries etc. Surgical instrument makers during the Civil War. There are also earlier sets marked U.

Aug 30 2016 - This Pin was discovered by Mark Britton. Probably the most recognizable and well known piece of medical equipment during the Civil War was the bone saw. For example in a war specified set one would expect a bullet extractor.

There is a collection of Civil War medical textbooks surgeon information bottles books and instruments. Milk Creek Mercantile Co. Civil war medical items and books for the civil war period.

1870 is when sterilization began and cased sets changed drastically afterwards to allow for sterilization of the various parts of the instruments. The cone was put over the nose and mouth of the patient and the vapors were inhaled. Any surgical antiques that are in cases andor.

Antique diagnostic instruments like stethoscopes and pleximeters. As we approach the Civil War era surgical procedures become more sophisticated and the medical textbooks reflect this progress. Forceps as found in most surgical sets.

Iron letters M S on shield designed guard. Civil War Medical Books Ephemera. Most feature sliding locks brass corner-inlays and brass plates engraved with some variation of Medical Department US.

Army or USA Hosp. These tools include the artificial legs arm for the amputated parts.


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