Library: Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center. Library / Collection: Health Sciences Center Library Artifact collection / Format: Artifact / Access: Public

1.
Brass screw tourniquet used to control bleeding in a limb or extremity owned by Dr. George Washington Peddy

Date:: 1800 to 1900
Format:: Artifact
Access:: Public

2.
Clyster (enema) syringe, brought from Ireland to the United States by John Green in 1815

Date:: 1800 to 1815
Format:: Artifact
Access:: Public

3.
Five obstetrical instruments housed in a leather roll

Date:: 1800 to 1900
Format:: Artifact
Access:: Public

4.
Phlebotomy lancets used for bloodletting

Date:: 1800 to 1900
Format:: Artifact
Access:: Public

5.
Scarificator set used for bloodletting in wooden box

Date:: 1800 to 1900
Format:: Artifact
Access:: Public

6.
10 piece set of medical instruments used in the treatment of membranous croup owned by Dr. David Harrison Garrison

Date:: 1830 to 1930
Format:: Artifact
Access:: Public

7.
Bloodletting instruments in leather case

Creator:: George Tiemann & Co.
Date:: 1830 to 1900
Format:: Artifact
Access:: Public

8.
Medical scales in wooden box owned by the Pettigrew family of Eagle Rock, Virginia

Date:: 1830 to 1840
Format:: Artifact
Access:: Public

9.
Scarificator set used for bloodletting in alligator skin case

Date:: 1830 to 1900
Format:: Artifact
Access:: Public

10.
Small knife with double edge, in red Moroccan leather case

Date:: 1830 to 1925
Format:: Artifact
Access:: Public

11.
12 piece intubation set used to treat croup and other diseases affecting the larynx in a wooden and leather case

Date:: 1832 to 1900
Format:: Artifact
Access:: Public

12.
14 piece surgical instrument set owned by Dr. Cyrus Strickler, Sr.

Date:: 1832 to 1900
Format:: Artifact
Access:: Public

13.
18 piece urethral instrument set

Creator:: George Tiemann & Co.
Date:: 1832 to 1900
Format:: Artifact
Access:: Public

14.
Brass scarificator set used for bloodletting, with pump, bottle, and cupping glasses in velvet-lined wooden case owned by Dr. John T. Lamar

Date:: 1832 to 1900
Format:: Artifact
Access:: Public

15.
Four dental molds

Date:: 1832 to 1900
Format:: Artifact
Access:: Public

16.
Pharmaceutical samples in a leather case owned by Henry S. Wright

Date:: 1832 to 1900
Format:: Artifact
Access:: Public

17.
Scarificator medical device used for bloodletting

Creator:: George Tiemann & Co.
Date:: 1832 to 1899
Format:: Artifact
Access:: Public

18.
Screw tourniquet

Date:: 1832 to 1900
Format:: Artifact
Access:: Public

19.
Various medical equipment including a cataract needle, a metal caliper, a hook used for blood-letting, and a thermometer

Date:: 1832 to 1925
Format:: Artifact
Access:: Public

20.
Obstetrical vectis instrument used to alter the position of a babies head during childbirth

Creator:: W.H. Hutchinson
Date:: 1834 to 1891
Format:: Artifact
Access:: Public

21.
Clyster (enema) box owned by Dr. Oliver Hazard Perry Hill of Lancaster, Kentucky

Date:: 1836 approx.
Format:: Artifact
Access:: Public

22.
Single tube microscope in wooden case

Creator:: Bausch & Lomb Optical Company
Date:: 1840 to 1870
Format:: Artifact
Access:: Public

23.
31 piece surgical instrument kit owned by Dr. John T. Lamar

Date:: 1850 to 1900
Format:: Artifact
Access:: Public

24.
32 piece set of obstetrical instruments

Date:: 1850 to 1950
Format:: Artifact
Access:: Public

25.
33 piece surgical instrument set in wooden case owned by Dr. John T. Lamar

Date:: 1850 to 1900
Format:: Artifact
Access:: Public

26.
Civil War-era brass screw tourniquet used to control bleeding in a limb or extremity

Date:: 1850 to 1865
Format:: Artifact
Access:: Public

27.
Leather medicine chest with broken strap. Contains 38 glass vials of medicine housed in tray including caffeine citrate and strychnine sulfate. Also includes small medicinal toolkit and other unidentified items in bottom compartment

Date:: 1850 to 1900
Format:: Artifact
Access:: Public

28.
Two-sided leather saddlebag containing 35 vials of medicine

Creator:: Curd & Sinton Manufacturing Co.
Date:: 1850 to 1900
Format:: Artifact
Access:: Public

29.
Wooden medicine chest

Date:: 1850 to 1933
Format:: Artifact
Access:: Public

30.
Seals of the Atlanta College of Physicians and Surgeons and the Atlanta Medical College

Date:: 1854 to 1915
Format:: Artifact
Access:: Public

31.
Three items from Atlanta Medical College: First Honor Class Medal awarded to M. G. Campbell, class of 1894, Steel engraving plate, Emory University office of the Dean, and a steel cut of Grady Hospital. Additionally from A. W. Calhoun Medical Library, an embossing seal housed in a black leather case

Date:: 1854 to 1915
Format:: Artifact
Access:: Public

32.
27 piece surgical instrument kit in wooden and leather case

Creator:: Hernstein & Son
Date:: 1855 to 1875
Format:: Artifact
Access:: Public

33.
Wooden case for glass slides

Creator:: Eduard Messter, Optiker & Mekaniker
Date:: 1859 to 1900
Format:: Artifact
Access:: Public

34.
Cammann binaural stethoscope owned by Dr. George Washington Peddy who served as a surgeon in the 56th Georgia Volunteer Regiment during the United States Civil War

Creator:: George Tiemann & Co.
Date:: 1860 approx.
Format:: Artifact
Access:: Public

35.
Minié ball bullet

Date:: 1860 to 1870
Format:: Artifact
Access:: Public

36.
Scales owned by Dr. George Washington Peddy

Date:: 1860 to 1900
Format:: Artifact
Access:: Public

37.
12 piece surgical instrument kit in wooden case

Date:: 1870 to 1937
Format:: Artifact
Access:: Public

38.
20 piece set of scales in wooden case owned by Dr. William Hollinshead

Date:: 1870 approx.
Format:: Artifact
Access:: Public

39.
Portable electromagnetic machine used for electrotherapy and owned by Dr. Charles Cotton Harrold

Creator:: Galvano-Faradic Manufacturing Co.
Date:: 1870 to 1879
Format:: Artifact
Access:: Public

40.
Two-sided leather pill satchel containing 18 vials of medicine

Date:: 1870 to 1920
Format:: Artifact
Access:: Public

41.
31 piece obstetrical instrumental set owned by Dr. C. W. Strickler, Jr.

Creator:: George Tiemann & Co., Evans, A.L. Hernstein, Lentz & Sons, Charrière, and W.H. Hutchinson
Date:: 1880 to 1950
Format:: Artifact
Access:: Public

42.
Dr. C. H. Fitch's Prescription Scale owned by Dr. J. C. Black

Creator:: N.V. Rudolph & Co.
Date:: 1880 to 1889
Format:: Artifact
Access:: Public

43.
Dr. C. H. Fitch's Prescription Scale owned by Dr. William Mundy

Creator:: N.V. Rudolph & Co.
Date:: 1880 to 1889
Format:: Artifact
Access:: Public

44.
Two-sided leather doctor’s bag containing 27 vials of medicine including chloroform, ether, ipecac syrup and potassium chlorate

Date:: 1880 to 1900
Format:: Artifact
Access:: Public

45.
Two-sided leather saddlebag containing 6 vials of medicine

Date:: 1882 to 1913
Format:: Artifact
Access:: Public

46.
Physician's visiting journal, owned by Dr. W. S. Elkin, containing patient visit lists and dosing recommendations

Date:: 1887
Format:: Artifact
Access:: Public

47.
16 piece intubation set used to treat croup and other diseases affecting the larynx owned by Dr. Thomas B. Davis

Creator:: George Ermold
Date:: 1888
Format:: Artifact
Access:: Public

48.
Crescent thermometer

Creator:: G.F. Harvey Company
Date:: 1890 to 1950
Format:: Artifact
Access:: Public

49.
Various medical instruments including an otoscope and an endaural speculum in a case owned by Dr. G. Pope Huguley

Creator:: Becton-Dickinson, Welch Allyn, Inc., and J. Sklar Manufacturing Co.
Date:: 1890 to 1965
Format:: Artifact
Access:: Public

50.
Medical News Visiting List, a leather-bound notebook for recording patient visits. Included in the notebook is an advertisement for the American Journal of the Medical Sciences

Creator:: Lea Brothers & Co.
Date:: 1892 approx.
Format:: Artifact
Access:: Public

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