General Information

Serial #

N/A

Part Number

1

Total Parts

2

AKA

N/A

Patents

N/A

General Description

steel & brass

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length

21.0 cm

Width

5.0 cm

Height

N/A

Thickness

N/A

Weight

N/A

Diameter

N/A

Volume

N/A

Lexicon

Group

Medical Technology

Category

Instruments

Sub-Category

N/A

Manufacturer

AKA

Herrmann

Country

Unknown

State/Province

Unknown

City

Unknown

Context

Country

England

State/Province

Unknown

Period

This type of instrument used c. 1837+. This example appears little/ never used.

Canada

Part of a large collection of medical artifacts, archival material & trade literature transferred to CSTM in 2002 from the former History of Medicine Museum, Toronto, ON. Dr. W.R. Beaumont came to Toronto from England in 1841. He served as Professor of Surgery at King's College [1843- 53]; was Dean of Faculty of Medicine there; succeeded Dr. Widmer as Consulting Surgeon at the General Hospital [Toronto], 1863. He died October 13, 1875. [Ref. 3]

Function

Unknown

Technical

Suturing instrument invented by Dr. W.R. Beaumont [1803- 1875] and said [by George Tiemann] to be the origin of the Singer sewing machine. [Ref.3]

Area Notes

Unknown

Details

Markings

"H. HERRMANN" stamped into instrument, below finger rings, "3" stamped into several separate component parts of instrument. UHN catalogue no. "X932.1.2A" printed by hand in white ink on instrument.

Missing

None.

Finish

steel and brass construction.

Decoration

N/A