Lecture Slides

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A.2023.3.6

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Collection of slides compiled by Herbert Agar to accompany talks. The slides were used in Agar's lectures 'The Development of Some Surgical Instruments and Appliances' (A.2023.3.4.3), and Agar's lecture to the Royal College of Midwives at St. Mary's Hospital in September 1960 (A.2023.3.4.1). The images of the slides include the history of surgical instruments, an engraving of Regnerus De Graaf, an eighteenth-century prototype of Tredelenburg's operating table, gynaecological instruments from the Hippocratic period [440-360 BC], an eighteenth century type of enema syringe, an enema syringe used in the Castle Museum in York, diagram of images from 'Armamentarium Chirurgicum' by J. Scultetus (1655), images of forceps from 3300BC to 600AD, image of table 7 in Lower's "Tractatus de corde" (1669) showing the silver-tube fittings used to connect the carotid artery of an animal with the jugular vein of another, a wood-cut from Meyer's paper (1885) illustrating the primitive method originally employed by Friedrich Trendelenburg for effecting the inclined inverted position, images of surgical instruments used for 'uterine operations' from Pierre Dionis's 'Cours d'operations de chirurgie' (1708), images of abdominal binders to be used following a caesarean section taken from Johann Christian Stark's 'Anleitung zum chirurgischen Verbande' (1802), image of a hernia operation showing the inverted position taken from Johannis Schulteti's 'Auctarium ad armamentarium chirurgicum' (1669).

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