Surgical Set
date: label: date made
content: mid-1800s
label: used date
content: 1845-1870
name: label: maker
content: George Tiemann and Company
notes: label: Description
content: The vaccinating lancet in this set, designed for giving smallpox vaccines by scarification, was devised by the Scottish physician, Thomas Graham Weir (1812-1896). According to a notice published in 1860, this instrument “has the merits of simplicity and convenience in a marked degree.” This was owned by Enoch T. Winter (d. 1871), a Yale graduate (class of 1845), and a physician in Harlem, N.Y.
label: Description
content: Ref: Viator, Letter from Edinburgh, in The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal 62 (1860): 337-340, on 340.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
topic: label: Subject
content: Surgery
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: The Antibody Initiative
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content: Antibody Initiative: Smallpox
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Frances M. Cosine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-02225
label: accession number
content: 95819
label: catalog number
content: M-02225
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pocket case
label: Object Name
content: surgical set
label: Other Terms
content: Pocket Case; Surgical Set; General Surgery
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: leather (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: tortoise shell (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ivory (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9.7 cm x 18 cm x 3 cm; 3 13/16 in x 7 1/16 in x 1 3/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/8 in x 6 3/4 in x 3 3/8 in; 2.8575 cm x 17.145 cm x 8.5725 cm
label: Measurements
content: lancet/vacc, open as displayed: 1 3/8 in x 2 1/2 in x 1/8 in; 3.4925 cm x 6.35 cm x .3175 cm
label: Measurements
content: lancet/vacc, closed: 3/8 in x 2 3/8 in x 1/8 in; .9525 cm x 6.0325 cm x .3175 cm