Nonexpendable apparatus used during surgical procedures. They are differentiated from SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS, usually hand-held and used in the immediate operative field.
    

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Illustrated catalogue of surgical instruments and appliances : manufactured and sold by Krohne & Sesemann, surgical instrument manufacturers, by appointment to the London Hospital (since 1860) also to numerous other hospitals and infirmaries throughout the United Kingdom.

Philip Harris & Co. Ltd. : Birmingham.

Royal Society of Medicine 1991/92 year planner.

Catalogue of surgical instruments & appliances, aseptic hospital furniture and surgical dressings, etc., etc / manufactured and sold by S. Maw, Son & Sons.

Specification of James Scott : surgical aparatus.

A catalogue of surgical instruments and appliances : also of aseptic hospital furniture including a large number of original designs manufactured and sold by Down Bros., Ltd.

Derma 3 / A. Schumann.

Surgical materials and their uses / by Alexander MacLennan.

Macarthys Surgical Limited.

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Specification of James Scott : surgical aparatus.

A catalogue of surgical instruments and appliances : also of aseptic hospital furniture including a large number of original designs manufactured and sold by Down Bros., Ltd.

Derma 3 / A. Schumann.

Surgical materials and their uses / by Alexander MacLennan.

Macarthys Surgical Limited.