By Dr.
Michael Echols
These are examples of the type of
hospital supplies which were requested to be returned to the U. S. Army
Medical Department and were sold at the end of the Civil War to raise money
for the Department. This is the first list of supplies this collector
has seen other than the military supply lists published in the U. S. Army
Regulations for the Medical Department. The importance is that it
proves certain items, such as scarificators, were still being used during
the Civil War.
The
original list of the Conesus Hospital inventory 1865
Some unique
items listed
in Hamilton's Military Surgery book 1861:
In the United States army each Regimental
Surgeon is allowed for three months service:
1 Sponge holder for the throat Buck's
8 Cupping Glasses 8 Tin Cups for the same purpose 6 Thumb Lancets in
cases 1 Spring Lancet 1 Set of Pocket Instruments 12 Whalebone Probangs
4 Scarificators 1 Set of Splints major Welch's 1 Stomach Pump and case 4
Enema Syringes of which 1 Davidson's 1 Hard Rubber 6 oz 8 Glass Penis
Syringes 8 India rubber Penis Syringes 1 Set of Teeth Extracting 1
Tongue Depressor on a hinge 8 Field Tourniquets 2 Spiral Tourniquets
Petit's 6 Hernia Trusses
AMPUTATING 1 Capital Saw 1 Metacarpal
Saw 1 Capital Amputating Knife 1 Medium 1 Small 1 Large Catling 1 Small
1 Scalpel 1 Tenaculum 1 Artery Needle 1 Forceps 1 Bone 1 Spiral
Tourniquet 12 Surgeon's Needles 1 Mahogany Case brass bound 1 Gutta
Percha Pouch
TREPHINING: 2 Trephines 1 Scalpel
with Raspitor I Hey Saw 1 Elevator 1 Brush 1 Mahogany Case brass bound
GENERAL OPERATING: 1 Metacarpal Saw 1
Trocar 1 Ball Forceps 1 Gullet 1 Artery 1 Dressing 2 Scissors straight
and 1 Artery Needle with 4 12 Surgeon's Needles 1 Tourniquet 1 Small
Amputating Knife 1 Catling 3 Bistouries 1 Hernia Knife 3 Scalpels 1
Cataract Knife 1 Needle 1 Tenaculum 1 Double Hook 6 Steel Bougies
silvered double curve Nos 1 and 2 3 and 4 5 and 6 7 and 8 9 and 10 11 12
6 Wax Bougies Nos 2 4 6 8 10 3 Silver Catheters Nos 3 6 9 6 Gum elastic
Catheters Nos 1 3 5 7 9 11 2 Mahogany Cases brass bound 1 Gutta Percha
Pouch
EXSECTING: 1 Bone Forceps Liston's 2
Bone Forceps sharp assorted 1 Bone Forceps for sequestra 1 Chain Saw 1
Chisel 1 Gouge 1 Lenticular Knife 2 Spatulas protecting 1 Trephine small
crown 1 Ecraseur 1 Mahogany Case brass bound 1 Gutta Percha Pouch
POCKET: 1 Large Scalpel 1 Small 1
Artery Forceps 1 Bull dog Forceps 1 Curved 1 Dressing 1 Needle 1 Sharp
pointed Bistoury 1 Probe pointed 1 Long Probe pointed Bistoury 1
Straight Scissors 1 Knee 1 Flat curved Scissors 1 Gum lancet 1 Tenaculum
1 Tenotomy Knife 1 Abscess Lancet 1 Exploring Needle 1 Exploring Trocar
1 Seton Needle 1 Spatula 2 Probes 1 Director 1 Double Canula 1 Comp d
Silver Catheter 6 Surgeon's Needles 1 Artery Needle 1 Morocco Case
U. S. A. Hospital Department
Tongue Depressor by H. Hernstein
A rare marked military tongue depressor for the U.
S. Army Hosp. Dept. by H. Hernstein.
Spring lancet, Thumb
lancet, American 16 blade
scarificator by Geo. Tiemann
A Geo. Tiemann bloodletting and
cupping scarificator as listed on the inventory of the hospital.
'Wade and Ford' bleeder ( fleam, spring lacet, scarificator)
Thumb blade bleeder lancet, set of two
Military issue Stomach/enema
Pump by Brinkerhoff
A necessity for soldiers
with dysentery and other intestinal disturbances.
U. S. Army Hosp. Dept. field
tourniquet by Tiemann
Still in the original paper
wrapper is a brass frame single strap tourniquet
Petit brass frame spiral
tourniquet by Gemrig and Tiemann
Cammann stethoscope by
William Ford with original elastic band
U. S. Army Hospital
Department surgical set by Kolbe'
Ear speculum by H. Hernstein
from a Civil War surgery set
Pocket roll-up surgical kit
by Geo. Tiemann
Goodyear black hard-rubber
syringe and a glass syringe for injection of chemicals
Treatment
of a venereal disease during the Civil War
Hard rubber syringe
instruments
