Around the central trepanning brace there are two fixed hand held trephines, two detachable handles and trephines attachments, a scalpel, a saw, elevator, brush, scissor handled spreaders, a starter trephine and two raspatories.Friday, 2 October 2009
Neurosurgical instruments of the past
This German neurosurgical set is dated to the early 19th century, when brain surgery meant boring holes with hand drills and slicing parts of the brain that doctors didn’t quite understand.
Around the central trepanning brace there are two fixed hand held trephines, two detachable handles and trephines attachments, a scalpel, a saw, elevator, brush, scissor handled spreaders, a starter trephine and two raspatories.
Around the central trepanning brace there are two fixed hand held trephines, two detachable handles and trephines attachments, a scalpel, a saw, elevator, brush, scissor handled spreaders, a starter trephine and two raspatories.
