Expendable and nonexpendable equipment, supplies, apparatus, and instruments that are used in diagnostic, surgical, therapeutic, scientific, and experimental procedures.
    

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Fleam, made by E. Dalman of London.

Scarificator, made by Charriere of Paris.

Pair of old bone forceps, ancient.

Examples of nasal speculum, both ancient and modern.

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Istrumenti di chemica : un laboratorio del XIX secolo / Gabriella Rambaldi.

How scientific instruments have changed hands / edited by A. D. Morrison-Low, Sara J. Schechner & Paolo Brenni.

Dent & Hellyer : leaders in sterile control technology.

Medical patents : a letter on the patenting of inventions in connexion with medicine / by John Chapman.

Tools of the apothecary / by George B. Griffenhagen.

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Istrumenti di chemica : un laboratorio del XIX secolo / Gabriella Rambaldi.

How scientific instruments have changed hands / edited by A. D. Morrison-Low, Sara J. Schechner & Paolo Brenni.

Dent & Hellyer : leaders in sterile control technology.

Medical patents : a letter on the patenting of inventions in connexion with medicine / by John Chapman.

Tools of the apothecary / by George B. Griffenhagen.