Pre- Civil War
surgery sets
(1840 to 1860)
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Dr.
Echols Collection
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These sets are presented to help differentiate pre- & post- Civil War medical
and surgical sets from those produced during the Civil War. All of the
surgical amputation sets on this page are pre-Civil War and 'could possibly'
have been used during the Civil War. None of these surgery sets were
military issue. It is possible
Union 'contract' surgeons could have brought one of these surgery sets with them to the
War, but after the first year of the War, contract surgeons were mainly used in the rear areas and not frontline
areas where emergency surgery would have been performed. Confederate
and Union Army regimental surgeons were the mainly the ones who did the amputations, not doctors who
were part-time or supporting patients in the rear area hospitals. Union
military surgeons used military supplied surgical sets, not limited sets they
may have brought with them to the War. Confederate surgeons, however, were more
likely to have used a personal set they obtained and brought to the War
themselves. Dr. Michael Echols
View these surgery sets as pre-Civil War
comparatives for identification purposes
(All sets on this site
are original, contain the correct instruments, and all instruments
in a given set are by the same maker. These are not
'put-together' sets and the sets do not contain substitution
instruments. If incorrect instruments were included in the set
when purchased for this collection, then the incorrect instruments
were removed or replaced when possible.)
2.0
c. late-1840's, Amputation set by H. G. Kern
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2.1
c.
late 1850's Amputation set by Gemrig
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2.1a
c. 1859-60 Snowden & Brother
amputation set
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2.2
c. 1850's trepanning set by Wiegand
and Snowden
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2.3
c. 1850's James Martin, Albany, New
York, three layer custom surgical set.
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2.4
c.
1850 ivory handled amputation set by New York maker George Tiemann.
This is an extensive four tier ivory set.
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2.5
c. 1850 amputation and
neurosurgery set by J. H. Gemrig, Philadelphia
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2.6
c. late 1860's amputation set
by Teufel, Philadelphia, Pa.; Teufel provided surgical instruments during
the Civil War.
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2.7
c. 1855 amputation set
by J. Kuemerle, Phila., Pa.; containing Liston type muscle cutting knives,
bone saw, skull trephine.
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2.8
c. 1860's trepanning set by H. G. Kern,
Philadelphia, Pa.
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2.9
c.
1860 amputation set by Francis Arnold, Baltimore, Md.
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2.10
c. 1857- 60 amputation set by
Snowden, Philadelphia
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