Medical Tools

Smith and Beck Binocular “Second Class or Number 3” microscope circa 1853-54. This microscope has thumbwheel-controlled rack & pinion inter-ocular separation, rack & pinion main focus and thumbwheel micrometer fine focus, a Wenham prism, on a sliding shoe to allow monocular or binocular vision, and a square mechanical stage with rotating overstage. Beneath the stage is a socket for...

Civil War surgeons kit for battle field use. Two bone saws, four surgical knives, tenaculum hook instrument for handling arteries, pliers for cutting joints and tourniquet. There is a compartment for sutures. All of the handles are of checkered wood. Brass plate on lid is initialed "FLP". Overall condition is excellent. No rust. Case is solid, no looseness or separated corners.

Civil War Field Surgeons Kit Made by Chas. Truax & Company Chicago Ill. This complete field surgeons kit with large bone saws (used in amputations), trepanning device for inter cranial surgery, tourniquet, surgeons’ silk and suture, five surgical knives, and a wicked looking instrument for hooking flesh or tendons, etc. With most instruments have checkered wooden handles (post Civil War...