Surgical Set
name: label: maker
content: Madeira, Pugh
notes: label: Description
content: Small dissecting set in a wooden box, with a paper card that reads “DISSECTING INSTRUMENTS / OF THE BEST QUALITY / Manufactured By / P. MADEIRA / 115 Tenth Street, bel. Chestnut Street / PHILADELPHIA.”
label: Description
content: Pugh Madeira (ca. 1809-1881), a surgical and dental instrument maker in Philadelphia, claimed that his instruments of American steel were as good as those made from European steel.
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 University of Pennsylvania School of Dentistry
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-09262
label: catalog number
content: M-09262
label: accession number
content: 218383
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Kit, Dissecting
label: Object Name
content: surgical set
label: Object Name
content: pocket case
label: Other Terms
content: Kit, Dissecting; Surgery
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 in x 6 7/8 in x 2 5/8 in; 2.54 cm x 17.4625 cm x 6.6675 cm