Key Information
Reference code
K/PP152/1/1
Title
Photographs of Lister's surgical instruments, bottles and carbolic spray, [1875-1912]
Date(s)
- [1875 - 1912] (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Scope and content
Lister's equipment including bottle for decanting sterilised fluid containing dried blood, (with duplicate copy marked up for publication) surgical cat gut in oil prepared by Lister, 1875 (with duplicate copy marked up for publication), pocket case with surgical instruments presented to Lister in 1896, glass tubes with bent necks used for experiments; carbolic spray used for dressings; silver wires for orthopaedic surgery and buttons devised by Lister for suturing methods. Small. 8 items.