Medical Tools

Civil War Field Surgeons Kit Made by Chas. Truax & Company Chicago Ill. This complete field surgeons kit with large bone saws (used in amputations), trepanning device for inter cranial surgery, tourniquet, surgeons’ silk and suture, five surgical knives, and a wicked looking instrument for hooking flesh or tendons, etc. With most instruments have checkered wooden handles (post Civil War...

Smith and Beck Binocular “Second Class or Number 3” microscope circa 1853-54. This microscope has thumbwheel-controlled rack & pinion inter-ocular separation, rack & pinion main focus and thumbwheel micrometer fine focus, a Wenham prism, on a sliding shoe to allow monocular or binocular vision, and a square mechanical stage with rotating overstage. Beneath the stage is a socket for...