Surgical Set
date: label: date made
content: about 1900
name: label: maker
content: Kny-Scheerer
notes: label: Description
content: Folding leather pocket case with a metal snap, and a partial label marked “Baltimore.” The set contains a curette, a knife, a curved bistourie, a scalpel, a bistourie, a pair of scissors, a tweezers forceps, a five-piece catheter set, and two packages of silk surgeon's thread. Several of the instruments are stamped with the Kny-Scheerer Company logo. The label on one pack of surgeon's silk reads “Corticelli / Twisted Surgeon's Silk / No. 7 / The Kny Scheerer Co., New York". That on the other reads "Surgeon's / Pure Silk, Warranted / No. 6 / Fayette MFG Co., / Baltimore, Md."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Surgery
setName: label: See more items in
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.302606.167
label: accession number
content: 302606
label: catalog number
content: 302606.167
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Pocket Case
label: Object Name
content: Surgical Sets
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 (case material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, silver (caustic holder material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, nickel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: cork (case material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7.6 cm x 15 cm x 2.7 cm; 3 in x 5 7/8 in x 1 1/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 5/8 in x 6 in x 3 in; 4.1275 cm x 15.24 cm x 7.62 cm