Surgical Kits

Surgical Kit
EH10102
Black leather pocket surgical kit with red velvet and faded purple cloth interior. Instruments include female and male catheters, double blade and single blade tortoise shell scalpels, arterial forceps, probes, a tongue depressor and a few other unkn... View Full Record
Surgical Kit
EH101022
Small brown leather pocket kit for surgical instruments. Inside flap reads, "E. A. Yarnall/ Surgical Instruments/ 115 S. ----- St. Phila. Instruments include arterial forceps, scissor forceps, male and/or female catheters, an instrument used in to... View Full Record
Surgical Kit
EH101024
Small leather pocket surgical kit. Inside flap reads, "Chas. Lentz & Sons/ 18 N. 11 St./ Philadelphia". Instruments include forceps, double blade bistouries, female and male catheters, and a few unknown small tools. Inside pocket holds suture thread... View Full Record
Suture Kit
EH101101
U.S. WWII military suture application and removal canvas kit. Instruments include forceps and a needle holder. Inside pocket includes needles, silk sutures, detachable blades and a paper dated February 26th, 1947 listing medical officers' medical sup... View Full Record
Surgical Kit
EH101156
Small pocket brown leather surgical kit with red cloth and purple velvet interior. Instruments include double blade pocket scalpels, arterial forceps, an ivory handle scalpel and two unknown tools. Small interior pocket holds three packets of surgeon... View Full Record
Neurosurgical Trephines
EH101164
Trepanning surgical set in a wooden case with brass handle on top and brass hook closures on front. Set consists of a double bladed head saw (Hey Saw, c.1830), an ivory/ bone handled brush, a scalpel, a bistourie, foceps and two trephines. The trep... View Full Record
Amputation Kit
EH101334
Wooden amputation kit with brown velvet interior. Consists of knives, a scalpel, a hook, forceps, amputation saws and an empty space that would have held a tourniquet. Belonged to Dr. I. N. Lightner. Due to stylistic similarities, this kit may have b... View Full Record
Surgical Instrument Kit
EH101340
Small leather pocket surgical kit with red cloth and velvet interior. Instruments include double blade pocket scalpels, tongue-tied surgery director, forceps and three unknown tools. Interior pocket holds curved and straight needles with a packet of... View Full Record
Surgical Instruments
EH101342
General surgical instruments wooden kit painted red with gold accents and a green velvet interior. Top of kit engraved with the name J. Musselman. Sold through Gilderd & Monroe's Drug and Medicinal Store on Market Street, Philadelphia, PA. Object No.... View Full Record
Surgical Instrument Kit
EH101343
Large general surgical instruments in wooden case with brass on corners and a brass plate on top. Instruments include ivory handled scalpels, knives and bistouries, multiple forceps, wooden handled knives, needle holders, a head saw, a trephine, and... View Full Record
Surgical KIt
EH101479
Wooden and dark leather box surgical kit. Inside lined with puple velvet. Many instruments are missing, but those that remain are various kinds of surgical knives, scalpels, and hooks. There is one relatively large rectangular white tube thats use is... View Full Record
instruments
eh101649
Small leather pocket surgical kit. Made by Charles Lentz & Sons in Philadelphia (18 N 11th St.). The brown leather bag is dated between 1887 - 1925, while most instruments (if not all) are dated between 1850-1880. This strongly suggests that the owne... View Full Record
Military Tracheotomy Kit
eh101739
Late 19th to early 20th century military tracheotomy kit in canvas case. Maunfactured by Lentz Surgical Instruments in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The patent date on the instruments is July 12, 1892. The set includes 7 trachea tubes in varying sizes... View Full Record
surgical kit
eh101857
Large cloth military surgical kit. May have been used during WWI. This kit would have used by a medical soldier on the field for emergency surgeries. Instruments include arterial forceps, scissors, scalpels, bullet forceps and many others. The in... View Full Record
Suture Kit
EH102071
Military suture kit in green canvas roll-up case and string ties. Twelve slots made of green leather with nine metal instruments (made in both Germany and the USA). Instruments include tongue-tied director, numerous types of forceps, and scissors. Si... View Full Record
Suture Kit
EH102073
Military suture kit in tan canvas roll-up case and string ties. Ten slots for nine instruments and two side pockets are present but empty. Some instruments are chrome plated and some are stainless steel. All made in either Germany or USA. Owner's nam... View Full Record
Surgical Set
EH10208
Tan military canvas surgical kit. Most likely used during WWII. Instruments include scissors, teasing needles, hooks, forceps, bistouries, and two unknown instruments. Companies that produced some of the instruments include Lentz, Koch, S.M.S, as wel... View Full Record
Military Pocket Surgery Kit
EH102164
Set of 2 military surgery kits manufactured by George Tiemann and Co., New York City. 1 kit contains a complete set of insturments along with sutures and needles. The second kit is missing some of the original instruments. Each kit is encased... View Full Record
Military Pocket Surgery Kit
EH102165
Early 20th century military pocket surgery kit in canvas case. Kit includes scapels, forceps, probes and elevators. The kit contains more instruments than the case allows so additional instruments have been added. Markings on canvas case and som... View Full Record
Military Pocket Surgery Kit
EH102166
Early 20th century. WWI era, military pocket surgical kit in canvas wallet. Inside front flap of canvas wallet is stamped with F. Alfred Reichardt and Co, a manufacturer of surgical instruments from the late 19th century to the early 20th century.... View Full Record
Pocket Surgery Kit
EH102167
Early to mid 20th century pocket surgery kit in cloth case. Set includes one Bard-Parker scapel with detachable blade, forceps, probes, elevators, irrigation syringe needle, a needle extractor, dissector, two tongue-tied directors, and an exploring... View Full Record
Dissecting Set
EH10460
Small surgical pocket leather case. Instruments include pocket scissers, bistouries, a ratchet, artery forceps, hooks and a director used in tongue-tied surgery.... View Full Record
Medical Set
EH10465
Black leather obstetrical surgery kit. Instruments include a female catheters, scissors, forceps, a scale used to weigh newborns, possible dilators, probe and a tongue-tied director. Kit producted by B-D. Due to the style of bag and some instruments... View Full Record
Surgical Kit
EH10488
Wooden pocket surgical kit with red velvet lined interior. Belonged to W.M. Roland. Box and many of the instruments were manufactured by Gemrig, who's name was in the business from 1840-1925. Instruments consist of scissors, scalpels, a plastic tube,... View Full Record
Surgical Kit
EH105448
Small black surgical kit with red velvet interior. Used for basic eye surgeries: possibly cataract surgery in particular. Instruments include two cataract knives, an angular cataract knife, a lens scoop and two unknown tools. All instruments, save on... View Full Record
Surgical case
EH10594
Embossed leather pocket surgical kit. Instruments include tortoise shell pocket scapels, a suturing needle, and one unknown instrument. Pocket is decorated with a pink and blue flower design and holds two small papers clipped papers, one of which is... View Full Record
surgical kit
EH10809
Small black leather pocket surgical or dissection kit. Due to the instruments remaining, appears to be just a dissection kit. Instruments include scalpels and a straight and curved tip teasing needle. While this kit is dated up until 1933, the wooden... View Full Record
Tracheotomy Set
EH10845
Wooden tracheotomy set with purple cloth and brown velvet interior. Instruments used as the only treatment for Diphtheria patients. At the time, the treatment was only seen as temporary until the patient, hopefully, recovered. Instruments include an... View Full Record
Surgical Instrument Kit
EH20144
Small military canvas pocket surgical kit. Was used during WWII. Instruments include forceps and scalpels. Two inside pockets hold silk sutures, needles and a paper listing medical officers' medical supplies- dated June 4, 1942. Bag was manufactured... View Full Record
Surgical Instruments
EH101083
Post-mortem leather brown leather kit with red interior. Made by the German company, F. Koeller & Co. Instruments include basic post-mortem dissection tools: a hammer, a chisel, scissors, a needle, a saw, toothed forceps and a few other unknown instr... View Full Record