American Civil War Medicine & Surgical Antiques

Surgical Set collection from 1860 to 1865 - Civilian and Military

Civil War:  Medicine, Surgeon Education & Medical Textbooks

 Dr. Michael Echols  &  Dr. Doug Arbittier

 

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Post- Civil War Surgery Sets ( 1866 to 1880's )

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Dr. Echols Collection

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These surgical sets are presented to help differentiate pre- & post- Civil War surgery sets from those produced during the Civil War.  All the surgical sets on this page are 'post-Civil War' and of course would not have been available during the Civil War.  It is important to differentiate the style and composition of these sets from earlier sets to avoid mislabeling them as 'Civil War era'.  They are not Civil War era, they are post-Civil War.  They may contain a maker's left-over instruments which were created or purchased during or in some cases before the War.  Instruments which evolved during the War were carried over to the post-War era and that is why you see post-War sets with military instruments like bullet forceps, male urinary sounds, etc., especially from the major instrument suppliers like Tiemann, Snowden, and Hernstein.  Dr. Michael Echols.

 

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(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 and replaced with the correct instruments when possible.)

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c. 1868 amputation set by Gemrig, Phila., Pa.

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Gemrig, Phila., Pa., amputation set c. 1868
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c. 1870's Shepard and Dudley, New York city, NY,  amputation set.   

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Shepard and Dudley, New York, post-Civil War surgical set c. 1870's
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c. 1869 bone resection surgical set by J. H. Gemrig, of Philadelphia, Pa. 

 

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J. H. Gemrig, Phila., bone resection surgical set c. 1869
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c. 1867 amputation set by J. H. Gemrig, Philadelphia

 

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c. 1870's amputation set by H. Kern, Philadelphia

 

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c. 1879 amputation set by Aloe and Hernstein, St. Louis, Mo.

 

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Aloe and Hernstein, N.Y., amputation set, c. 1879
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c. 1880, A diverse three tier surgical set by J. H. Gemrig of Philadelphia, with removable leather case.

 

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c. 1880, Sharp and Smith general Surgery Set

 

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Sharp and Smith, Chicago, extensive surgical amputation set, c. 1880
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c. 1886 surgical set by L. V. Helmold, Phila., Pa.  An extensive three tier set in mahogany case with many non-metal handled instruments for this set made late in the 1800's at a time when sterilization was the new path of medicine.

 

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L. V. Helmold, Phila., Pa., extensive three tier surgical set c. 1886

 

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