Surgical Set
name: label: maker
content: Charriere, Joseph
notes: label: Description
content: Small case with a gilt inscription that reads "FABT D'INSTS DE CHIRURGIE / CHARRIER / 6 Rue de l'Ecole de Medecin." The contents include two steel lancets, one marked "Charrier"; 4 bone-handled lancets marked "Rodier A Paris"; one bone-handled lancet marked "B. S. Codman & Co., Boston"; one scissors marked "Charrier A Paris"; one stiletto; one rectal director; two irrigating tubes; six surgical needles; one coil of horsehair; one coil of wire; three coils of heavy cotton thread; and two coils of fine silk thread. This case was used by Dr. Jonathan S. Prout (1833-1928), a Medical Officer who served the 26th Missouri Infantry, U.S. Army, during the Civil War.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mrs. Charles Du Bois
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-03098
label: catalog number
content: M-03098
label: accession number
content: 116253
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pocket case
label: Object Name
content: surgical set
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 1/4 in x 3 in x 1 3/8 in; 15.875 cm x 7.62 cm x 3.4925 cm