A United States Army
Hospital Department set as made for the Union troops by George Tiemann Co.,
New York. The set has military latches, and is correctly marked on the
brass plaque as Civil War government issue. The mahogany set with heavy
brass corners and screws, measures 6 x 14 x 2.5 inches. This set came
with another U. S. Army Hospital Dept. Civil War surgical set.
George Tiemann cutler
1826-32: 35 Chatham Street
1833-55: 63 Chatham Street (manufacturer of scissors and surgical
instruments beginning in 1841)
George Tiemann & Co. (George Tiemann, Frederick A. Stohlmann, and Edward
Pfarre) surgical instruments
1855-63/64: 63 Chatham and 44 Eldridge
1863/64-71: 67 Chatham and 44 Eldridge
(George Tiemann died 26 September 1868; succeeded by Stohlmann and pfarre;
factory built at 81 & 83 Boerum, Brooklyn in 1871-72)
1872-86: 67 Chatham and 107 E. 28th (the latter site bore the name
Stohlmann, pfarre & Co.; in 1882 Stohlmann and Pfarre were joined in
Tiemann & Co. by their sons, C. Frederick Stohlmann, Louis G. Pfarre,
and Julius A. pfarre)
1886-1900: 107 Park Row
Reference:
Edmonson
There are several
instruments in the lower part of the case which are not listed in the factory
detail label, but they are consistent with the era, set, and use. The
detail label refers to this set as for 'Strictures'. Strictures
indicates use for enlargement of the male urinary tract.
The brass tubes each
have a rounded end wax 'bougie'. The wax
coated stick would have been used for insertion using progressively larger
diameters for relief of 'stricture' in the
canal.
This is the only set
this collector has seen like this one.
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