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Surgical instruments & accessories

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Images referencing Surgical instruments & accessories

6 images from works
  • Greenhalgh' s metronome, 19thC
  • Blood letting 18th- 19th century: artificial leeches.
  • Bleeding horn used to draw blood.
  • Ormsby 's ether inhaler. Early model.
  • Ormsby 's ether inhaler. Later model.
  • Original Elisha Perkins' patented metallic tractors.

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    Ormsby 's ether inhaler. Early model.

    Ormsby, L.H.
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    Original Elisha Perkins' patented metallic tractors.

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    Greenhalgh' s metronome, 19thC

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    Ormsby 's ether inhaler. Later model.

    Ormsby
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    Bleeding horn used to draw blood.

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