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Medical Student Kit |
1886 Columbia Medical Student Kit
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.
| 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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