Details
A 19th-Century surgeon's set,signed J. WEISS, LONDON No. 62 STRAND, comprising saw with decorative handle, two Hey's saws, four Liston knives, trephine with two interchangeable crowns, three trocars with cannulae, a Petit's and another tourniquet, and various scalpels, bistouries, forceps and catheters, most nickel-plated with chequer-grip or plain ebony handles, in a red velvet lined, brass-bound, fitted WEISS'S IMPROVED AIR-TIGHT CASE with lift out tray -- 15½in. (39cm.) wide
See Colour Plate 7
See Colour Plate 7
Provenance
J.A. Bostock Esqr Scots Fusilier Guards (brass plaque to lid). John Ashton Bostock C.B. (1815-97) held a series of medical positions in the British Army, retiring as Deputy Surgeon General in 1878.