Cautery Set
name: label: maker
content: J. Ellwood Lee Company
notes: label: Description
content: Cautery set devised by Claude Andre Paquelin (1836-1905), a physician in Paris, as modified by Henry Park Curtis Wilson (1827-1897), a gynecologist in Baltimore. In this form, the cauterizing point is hollow and contains platinum sponge, and the heat is maintained by blowing benzine vapor into this sponge. This example belonged to J. Oliver Purvis (1880-1962), a doctor in Annapolis. An inscription reads “J. E. LEE CO. / ROY & CO. N.Y. / PAT. DEC. 29. 92.”
label: Description
content: John Elwood Lee (1860-1914) began making surgical instruments in his parents’ home in Conshohocken, Pa., in 1879. In 1905 he merged his operations with Johnson & Johnson. F. M. Roy & Co., of New York, advertised as “Proprietors of DR. PAQUELIN’S THERMO-CAUTERY.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Henry Park Custis Wilson, Paquelin’s Thermo-Cautery with Wilson’s Antithermic Shield (1879).
label: Description
content: Ad for F. M. Roy & Co., “Proprietors of DR. PAQUELIN’S THERMO-CAUTERY,” in <i>Boston Medical and Surgical Journal</i> CXIV (June 30, 1886): 10.
label: Description
content: “Dr. Paquelin’s Cautery (Thermo Cautery” in Sharp & Smith, <i>Catalogue of . . . Surgical Instru-ments</i> (Chicago, 1889), pp. 698-699.
label: Description
content: John Ellwood Lee, “Thermocauterer,” U.S. Patent 490,969 (Jan. 31, 1892).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Conshohocken
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.302606.238
label: accession number
content: 302606
label: catalog number
content: 302606.238
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Case
label: Object Name
content: cautery set
label: Object Name
content: surgical set
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: fabric (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: fabric, silk (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: black (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: purple (overall color)
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content: string, cotton (set material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (set material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 10.5 cm x 18 cm x 13.5 cm; 4 1/8 in x 7 1/16 in x 5 5/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 3/8 in x 7 1/8 in x 5 1/4 in; 11.1125 cm x 18.0975 cm x 13.335 cm