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Silver Lithotomy Set with Case

Inventory Number 82396


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.82396

Subject
Surgery
Item type
Object
Primary inscriptions
Handle of key: "SAVIGNY & CO". Folded small piece of paper - handwritten note on half of one side: "Written this morning. Might be well enough. Very disappointed" and "Ya" or "Ta" (?). Other side: "Presented by C.S. Forte Esq, Broadwater, Worthing. S.S.F. student at Guy's, about 1830, father of James Henry Forte of Guy's. c. 1860."
Physical material
metal
Wood
Paper
leather
Object type
Lithotomy instrument
Inventory No
82396

Description

Silver lithotomy set with key, note and case. Instruments for the urethra and bladder.