Now on ScienceBlogs: An Experiment in Teaching Writing: A Look Inside the Sausage Factory

ScienceBlogs Book Club: Inside the Outbreaks

Profile

me_w.jpg
I'm a molecular and developmental neurobiologist turned science writer
Contact me

Recent Comments

Recent Posts

Search


Selected posts

Books


wishlist.gif


My photos

www.flickr.com

Rotating blogroll

(Complete list/Shared items)

Archives

« ScienceBlogs book club | Main | Matrix-style "brain downloads" for schoolchildren? »

Vintage surgical instruments

Category: Medicine & Health
Posted on: June 1, 2008 6:30 PM, by Mo

trepan.png

From Lithographische Abbildungen nebst Beschreibung der vorzuglicheren alteren und neueren chirurgischen Werkzeuge und Verbande, nach dem Handbuche der Chirurgie von Chelius geordnet, und am Schlube mit einer systematischen Zusammenstellung sammlicher abgebildeter Geratschaften versehen, by Franz Andreas Ott, 1829, Munich (via BibliOdyssey).

The book contains a total of 48 plates, and is just one of about 100 digitized monographs available at the Edoc database at Humboldt University in Berlin. Among the instruments in the plate above there appear to be several trepans; earlier today, at the Wellcome Trust's Medicine Man exhibition, I saw some real vintage surgical instruments, as well as a trepanned skull.

Share on Facebook
Share on StumbleUpon
Share on Facebook
Find more posts in: Medicine & Health

Trackbacks

Trackback URL for this entry: http://scienceblogs.com/mt/pings/73130

Comments (1)

1

thankyou for your information

Posted by: nishkrash | June 2, 2008 4:53 AM

ScienceBlogs

Search ScienceBlogs:

Go to:

Advertisement
Follow ScienceBlogs on Twitter

© 2006-2011 ScienceBlogs LLC. ScienceBlogs is a registered trademark of ScienceBlogs LLC. All rights reserved.