Surgical Set
date: label: date made
content: ca 1837-1854
label: associated dates
content: 1861-1865
name: label: user
content: Cockrill, Dr. James Jackson
label: maker
content: Evans and Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: These instruments belonged to Dr. James Jackson Cockrill (1815-1878). He received his medical degree in 1837 from the University of Maryland. A hand-written note accompanying the set states the instruments were used on the battlefield of Antietam, and in [Camp] Patterson Park Hospital where he was in charge during the war.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Evans and Company was a manufacturer of surgical instruments in London. The instruments are stamped <i>EVANS & Co./OLD CHANGE/LONDON</i>. The firm resided at 10 Old Change from about 1783 until about 1854.
label: Description (Brief)
content: The set is incomplete, only one tray of instruments remains. They include three Liston amputation knives, two silver tracheotomy tubes, seven smaller instruments including four knives, two needles, a hook and a trephination brush. The knives are made of steel with smooth ebony handles.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
label: associated place
content: United Kingdom: Grand Bretagne
topic: label: Subject
content: Surgery
label: Subject
content: Surgical instruments
label: related event
content: Civil War
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Civil War Surgical Sets
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.302606.744
label: accession number
content: 302606
label: catalog number
content: 302606.744
objectType: label: Object Name
content: amputation set
label: Object Name
content: surgical set
label: Other Terms
content: Surgical Set; Major Surgery
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ebony (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: velvet (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: red (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 5/8 in x 16 5/8 in x 8 3/4 in; 4.1275 cm x 42.2275 cm x 22.225 cm