Surgical instruments
Director 1 1 steel
Probe, silver 1 1
Forceps 1
Catheters 1 silver
Amputating instruments 1 set
Trepanning instruments 1 Trepan 1 set
Lancets 2 best crown, 4 common
Tourniquets 1 Brass with ligatures 8 common
Syringe, pewter 4 2
Syringe, ivory 2
Glyster pipe arm'd 6
Tooth-drawing instrument 1 Crow Bill
Pharmaceutical equipment
Scales and weights 1 box 1 set
Mortar and pestle 1 Brass, 1 Glass
Tyles (pill tiles) 2
Spatulas 1 wooden handle, 1 iron handle 1 large, 1 pocket
Bolus knife 1
Plaister knife (plaster spatula) 1
Leather skins 2 lb.
Miscellaneous supplies
Bottles Assortment Assortment
Gallypots 1 doz. Assortment
Vials 6 doz. sorted
Corks 10 doz.
Pillboxes 1 pacg.
Wrapp[ing] paper 4 quire
Writing paper 1 quire 6 quire
Ink powder 2 papers
Quiles (quills) 14 hundred

U.S. Government Printing Office: 1961

For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office
Washington 25, D.C.—Price 25 cents


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