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Dissecting Instruments (Florey), Mid 20th Century

Inventory Number 30573


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.30573

Subject
Surgery
Item type
Object
Provenance
Lent by Lady Florey in 1969.
Dimensions
Height: 155mm Width: 110mm Depth: 15mm Weight: 178g
Inventory No
30573
Accession Number
1969-124/11(B1-5)

Description

Dissecting set comprising 19 parts. Five coils of fine wire; one with a red gutta percha tube attached, one with three plugs and one with two glass tubes attached at one end, fused together with wax. Coil of fabric-covered cable with two-pointed dissecting instrument at one end. Steel rod with thread at one end and a milled knob at the other. Dissecting hook on shaft with flattened handle at the centre. Six glass tubes. Five glass rods with hooked tips, one has two hooks at its tip. Contained in a green Ardath Tobacco tin with a hinged lid.