Leather bag with key. Contains 100 labeled glass vials, some with contents: 60 small, 44 large. Also comes with miscellaneous instruments, including metal case with hypodermic needles and lancet.
Ob/gyn medical instruments in a wooden box: Two syringes marked India Rubber Catarrhal Syringe. Box label reads: manufactured under Goodyear's Patent by India Rubber Comb Company
Collection consists of historical medical instruments and artifacts, art objects, realia, and other three-dimensional objects related to the history of medicine, primarily originating from Europe and the United States, but including some artifacts from China and Japan. Ranging in age from the late 16th to the early 21st centuries, objects include medical kits and pharmaceutical items (often in the original cases and bags); equipment used in amputation, obstetrics, opthalmology, surgery, urology, neurology, early electrical therapies, and in research and diagnostic settings; instructional objects such as anatomical models and figurines; and other objects such as apothecary jars, cupping glasses, infant feeders, a bas-relief memento mori, and fetish figures. There are many models of microscopes, ear trumpets, and stethoscopes, dating from the 17th to the 20th century. Includes some original medicines, such as pills and capsules. Note that the collection contains fragile materials which may involve extra assistance from staff. Accquired as part of the History of Medicine Collections at Duke University.
Transferred from the David E. Evans Papers. These pictures bear no formal title. They show the development of a farm from the time it was settled until it became a prosperous establishment.
Note attached: "The original of this was found under a church in Vienna in Germany, cut upon a stone, and was brought to this country in 1782 by Joseph Kerner."