The items below were the instruments and tools
used by a student doctor at Columbia University Medical School in 1886. All items
were obtained together along with a hand written note about the doctor while he was in
medical school in 1886. All these items are simple and illustrate
the limited diagnostic tools available at the time.
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Lab alcohol lamp for sterilization with
ground glass cap. c. 1886, Columbia Medical School
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Student urine analysis specific gravity
kit, c.1886, Columbia Medical School
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Student dissection kit, mahogany tube
with tenaculae (picks), c. 1886, Columbia Medical School
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Ivory vaccination needle, c. 1886, one
of several items from a Colombia Medical School student kit
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Reflex or percussion
hammer, c.
1886. The head of the hammer is a hardened rubber and the handle is carved ebonized
wood from student kit
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Ford stethoscope in student kit
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