Dissecting Set
date: label: date made
content: 1861-1864
name: label: maker
content: George Tiemann and Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This dissecting set was issued by the United States Hospital Department. There is an octagonal brass medallion engraved, <i>U. S. A./Hosp. Dept.</i> in the lid. The set contains three ivory handled scalpels, one steel scalpel, one steel blade and a universal handle, one tool which may have been used as a chisel but is not original to the set, three hooks to chains on a ring, one pair of straight scissors, and one blowpipe. The original chisel and forceps are missing.
label: Description (Brief)
content: The black and gold oval label on the interior of the case reads <i>G. TIEMANN & CO./MANUFACTURERS/OF/SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS/63 CHATHAM ST N.Y.</i>.
label: Description (Brief)
content: The Tiemann Company was founded by George Tiemann (1793-1868), who immigrated to the United States in 1826 from Germany. The company resided at this address from 1855 to 1863.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
topic: label: Subject
content: Surgery
label: Subject
content: Surgical instruments
label: Subject
content: Civil War
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: Mrs. Katherine Maxwell and Dr. Charles Frederick Frey
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1978.0605.02
label: catalog number
content: 1978.0605.02
label: accession number
content: 1978.0605
objectType: label: Object Name
content: surgical set
label: Object Name
content: dissecting set
label: Other Terms
content: Surgical Set
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: mahogany (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ivory (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: velvet (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 3/4 in x 9 3/8 in x 3 3/4 in; 6.985 cm x 23.8125 cm x 9.525 cm