Surgical Set
date: label: date made
content: about 1883
label: date made
content: 1883
name: label: maker
content: Sharp & Smith
notes: label: Description
content: This surgical set belonged to Dr. George W. McIntyre of St. Peter, Minnesota, and was given to the Maryland Medical Faculty in 1947 by Miss Mildred McIntyre, R.N. Johns Hopkins Hospital Training School for Nurses.
label: Description
content: George W. McIntyre was born 28 September 1853 in Cleveland, Ohio. When he was a child the family moved to Minnesota. He studied with a Dr. Ballard, and later attended lectures at the Minnesota College Hospital in Minneapolis. He graduated as Valedictorian in 1883. McIntyre became an Assistant Physician, and later Superintendent at the Hospital for the Insane in St. Peter, Minnesota. In addition he maintained a private medical practice. This brass medallion on the exterior lid is marked "MCH/First prize for examination/in surgery/Presented to Dr. George W. McIntyre/by F.A. Dunsmore, M.D./1883"
label: Description
content: This is a typical amputation set used by American doctors during the second half of the nineteenth century. It was made by Sharp & Smith manufacturers of surgical Instruments. Their shop was at 73 Randolph Street in Chicago. The instruments are made of steel and have wooden ebony handles. The also set contains three saws, a Capital, a Liftback and a Hay's saw, tweezer forceps and artery forceps, a trephine and brush. The lower compartment contains two Liston knives and a Catlin Knife. Tourniquet, tongue tie/director, three scalpels, four bistouries, a tenaculum and an aneurism needle. The small compartment with the lid contains three hypodermic needles.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
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.302606.420
label: accession number
content: 302606
label: catalog number
content: 302606.420
objectType: label: Object Name
content: surgical set
label: Object Name
content: amputation set
label: Object Name
content: Set, Amputation
label: Other Terms
content: Set, Amputation; Surgical Set
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood, rosewood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: cloth, velvet (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 in x 16 1/8 in x 6 3/8 in; 7.62 cm x 40.9575 cm x 16.1925 cm