Trepanning instrument
Date
1800
Creator
Wilson Lowry (1762 - 1824, British) , Engraver
After
[?] Millar, Artist
Object type
Library reference
9183
Material
Dimensions
height (print): 210mm
width (print): 128mm
width (print): 128mm
Subject
Description
View of the medical instrument, positioned on a human head.
The author of the accompanying article notes the dangers of trepanning operations, concluding that: ‘The sliding collar may be used with advantage when the surgeon if afraid of plunging the head of the instrument into the brain…it is particularly recommended to surgeons who may have frequent occasion to perform this operation on board a sip at sea’.
Plate 7, illustrating the paper: ‘Description of a new instrument for trepanning, invented by Mr. John Rodman, Surgeon in Paisley’, The Philosophical Magazine…[edited] by Alexander Tilloch, v.6, (1800) pp.207-209.
Inscribed above: ‘Philo. Mag. Pl.VII. Vol. VI’ and headed ‘Mr. Rodman’s Trepanning Instrument.’. Inscribed below: ‘Millar delt. Lowry sculp’.
Wilson Lowry (1762-1824), British engraver and geologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1812.
The author of the accompanying article notes the dangers of trepanning operations, concluding that: ‘The sliding collar may be used with advantage when the surgeon if afraid of plunging the head of the instrument into the brain…it is particularly recommended to surgeons who may have frequent occasion to perform this operation on board a sip at sea’.
Plate 7, illustrating the paper: ‘Description of a new instrument for trepanning, invented by Mr. John Rodman, Surgeon in Paisley’, The Philosophical Magazine…[edited] by Alexander Tilloch, v.6, (1800) pp.207-209.
Inscribed above: ‘Philo. Mag. Pl.VII. Vol. VI’ and headed ‘Mr. Rodman’s Trepanning Instrument.’. Inscribed below: ‘Millar delt. Lowry sculp’.
Wilson Lowry (1762-1824), British engraver and geologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1812.
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