Parker Surgical Set by Tiemann (ca 1880) — A very fine four level capital surgical set by America's premier instrument maker. This ivory set is complete and marked the high point of surgical instrument making prior to the aseptic era.
Chapter 4. General Surgery
"He must begin first in youth with good learning and exercise in thys noble arte, he also must be clenly, nimble handed, sharpe sighted, pregnant witted, bolde spirited, clenly apparailed, piteful harted, but not womenly affecionated to wepe or trimble, when he seeth broken bones or bloodies woundes, neither muste he geve place to the cries of his sore patiente, for soft chyrurgians maketh fowle sores. Of the other syde, he maie not plaie the partes of a butcher to cutte, rende or teare the bodie of mannekynde. For although it be fraile, sore, and weake, yet it is the pleasure of God, to cal it his Temple, his instrument, and dwelyng place."
— William Bullein
Bulleins Bulwarke Of Defence Againste
All Sicknes, Sores, And Woundes (1579)
- Surgery in Ancient Egypt
- Rome
- Middle Eastern Surgery
- From Barber-Surgeons to Patron Saints
- Surgery Becomes a Profession
- Amputation
- Surgical Sets and Manufacturers
- The Control of Bleeding
- The Cautery
- The Tourniquet
- Surgical Asepsis
- Anesthesia
- Laughing Gas
- Ether
- Chloroform
- An Immediate Controversy
- Local Anesthesia