Items Tagged Treatment
Leucotome
ACCESSION NUMBER: 1974.13.1 Object Name: McKenzie’s leucotome Manufacturer: Down Bros Date Made: 1940-1949 MeSH Code: Medical Subject Headings Surgical Instruments Psychosurgery — instrumentation Neurosurgery — instrumentation Neurology — instrumentation ARTEFACT DESCRIPTION First undertaken in 1935 by Portuguese neuropsychiatrist Dr. Antonio … Continue reading
Cardio Pacemaker
ACCESSION NUMBER: 994007030 Object Name: Cardio Pacemaker Manufacturer: American Optical Corp Date Made: 1960 MeSH Code: Medical Subject Headings Pacemaker, Artificial Cardiac Pacing, Artificial — instrumentation Cardiovascular Diseases — therapy Cardiology — instrumentation ARTEFACT DESCRIPTION Many medical discoveries of the … Continue reading
Urinometer
ACCESSION NUMBER: 1935.3.1 Object Name: Urinometer Manufacturer: Unknown Date Made: 1800-1899 MeSH Code: Medical Subject Headings Urinalysis Diabetes Mellitus ARTEFACT DESCRIPTION For several thousand years urine was a, if not the, primary body fluid used in medical diagnoses. Physicians relied … Continue reading
Seton Needle
ACCESSION NUMBER: 1986.6.8 Object Name: Seton Needle Manufacturer: Unknown Date Made: 1830-1870 MeSH Code: Medical Subject Headings Needles-Suture techniques ARTEFACT DESCRIPTION Seton needles first became popular in the 15th century as a means of producing counter-irritation. This approach to medical … Continue reading
Hey’s Saw
ACCESSION NUMBER: 997001102 Object Name: Hey’s Saw Manufacturer: unknown Date Made: circa 1860 MeSH Code: Medical Subject Headings Trephining — trephine; Trephining – instrumentation; Neurosurgery — instrumentation ARTEFACT DESCRIPTION Trepanning, also known as trephining, dates back at least 7000 years to the … Continue reading
Anastomosis button
ACCESSION NUMBER: 1962.1.8 Object Name: Anastomosis button Manufacturer: unknown Date Made: circa 1915 MeSH Code: Medical Subject Headings Surgical Instruments ARTEFACT DESCRIPTION Once called the “surgical genius of our generation” by Dr. William Mayo, Dr. John Benjamin Murphy (1857-1916) was … Continue reading
Lebenswecker
ACCESSION NUMBER: 1930.5.1 Object Name: Lebenswecker Manufacturer: unknown Date Made: 1870-1899 MeSH Code: Medical Subject Headings Irritants; Quackery ARTEFACT DESCRIPTION Carl Baunscheidt (1809-1873), a German mechanic and inventor, first produced the lebenswecker in 1848. Translated most directly as “life awakener”, … Continue reading
Stomach pump and enema
ACCESSION NUMBER: 1976.6.44 Object Name: Stomach pump and enema Manufacturer: W. & H. Hutchinson Date Made: 1841-1859 MeSH Code: Medical Subject Headings Suction; Irrigation; Gastroenterology — instrumentation; Suction and Drainage — stomach pump ARTEFACT DESCRIPTION For thousands of years, humans … Continue reading
Pill machine
ACCESSION NUMBER: 1980.18.120 a-b Object Name: Pill machine Maker: Unknown Date Made: 1800-1899 MeSH Code: Medical Subject Headings Drug Compounding; Drug Compounding — instrumentation ARTEFACT DESCRIPTION Before mass-production began in the nineteenth centuries and even into the beginning of the … Continue reading
Medicine chest
ACCESSION NUMBER: 1954.3.1 Object Name: Medicine chest Maker: Unknown Date Made: Circa 1834 Country of Origin: Scotland and United States of America MeSH Code: Medical Subject Headings Drug Storage — instrumentation; House Calls; Drug Case; Drug Packagaing — container – … Continue reading
