Medicine in 1860s Victoria

Equipment List

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Transcript of the list of equipment found in Dr. J. S. Helmcken's
medical supplies account book.
British Columbia Archives call number MS-0505, volume 3.

 

Amputating instruments
Bandages, calico
Bed pans
Bottles, stoppered and sucking
Breast pump with two glasses
Catheters
Cupping instruments and glasses
Eye instruments
Forceps
Lancets
Labels
Machine, pill
Nipple shields of glass and Indian rubber
Platina wire
Pipes, breast
Plaster, adhesive, on silk, Goldbeaters, Belladonna, Mercurial and strengthening

Post mortem instruments
Press, tincture
Pulleys, dislocation
Silk, oiled and ligature
Speculum vaginae
Splints
Stethoscopes
Stomach pump
Surgeon's pocket case
Syringes, metal and glass
Spatulas
Tooth instruments
Trephining instruments
Trusses, single, double and childrens
Urinometer


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