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Language: English
Published by Schiffer Publishing Ltd, 2008
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- Title
- Antique Medical Instruments
- Author
- C. Keith Wilbur
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd
- Publication year
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Paperback / softback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0764329936
- ISBN 13
- 9780764329937
- Item weight
- 620 grams
Family physician and artist Dr. C. Keith Wilber presents a hand-illustrated tour of medical history via the doctors' instruments. This study chronicles the evolution of a wide range of medical instruments from the mid-1700s through current usage. It includes discussions on microscopes, reflex hammers, stethoscopes, blood pressure instruments, electro-cardiographs, ophthalmoscopes, otoscopes, endoscopes, vaginal specula, thermometers, forceps, bullet probes, bloodletting instruments, vaccination lancets, trepanning tools, and others. This is an important resource for all medical personnel, historians, and collectors.
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About the Author
Dr. Wilbur attended Vermont Medical School and established a family practice in Northampton, Massachusetts in 1953. The collecting of and writing about medical instruments has been a recent avocation about which Dr. Wilbur has said, "One of my pleasures has been to locate appropriate medical instruments for some of our area museums. It has been something of a treasure hunt…"
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