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Injection Chambers (Florey), Mid 20th Century

Inventory Number 34263


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.34263

Subject
Surgery
Item type
Object
Provenance
Apparatus of Lord Florey (1898-1968)
Dimensions
Height: 263mm Width: 214mm Depth: 20mm
Inventory No
34263
Accession Number
1973-26/9

Description

1.Template made for the earliest four chambers (1937).

2. Punch, 9.2mm for central hole in #1. Punches are internally bevelled.

3. Template used for later, rather smaller, chamber.

4. Punch, 8 mm diameter, for centre of #3.

5. Punch, 8mm diameter, for use with some later chambers.

6. Three punches, 4mm diameter, for lateral holes in all templates.

7. Punch 2mm diameter.

8. Punch 1.5mm diameter.

9. Washers and collars used with early types of chambers.

10. Copper Alloy cylinder used a hammer for hitting in the punches.

11. Full sized, 2mm thick, copper alloy 10 B.A. nuts.

12. Half-sized, 1mm thick, copper alloy 10 E.A. nuts used as "lock-nuts".

13. The first box spanner made for 10 B.A. nuts.

14. The second box spanner with loose wire for ejecting nuts.

15. The third box spanner with spring-loaded solid nut ejector.

16. Spring-loaded box spanner with hollow 10 B.A. clearance nut ejector.

17. Thin Flat spanner for lock-nuts.

18. Thick flat spanner for full size nuts.

19. "Mosquito" forceps for dissecting flaps.

20. "dagger-pointed" forceps for starting the dissection

21. Fine pointed dissector for starting dissection.

22. and 23. Thick and Thin scalpels modified for the main dissection.

24. and 25. Eyebrow tweezers modified for removing Perspex plugs in chambers.

26. Pin vice mounted on holder with R.M.S. objective thread for removal of silver pins used in chambers made for inoculating tissue with bacteria.