Long, slender, wooden handle with a disc-shaped head that has a rubber bumper around its perimeter; head unscrews from handle.
Number Of Parts
1
Provenance
Acquired from the Academy of Medicine; source: Dr. J. Hannah of Toronto; Dr. Weston L. Herriman.
Dates
1900
1920
circa 1900-1920
Material
wood: reddish-brown
metal: silver
rubber: black
Permanent Location
Storage Room 0010
0010-F4-1
Condition Remarks
Rubber bumper deteriorating--dried, cracked, almost split in one area; #2: Rubber requires special treatment
Copy Type
Original
Reference Types
Document
Research Facts
This artefact is part of a set of surgical instruments belonging to Dr. Weston L. Herriman, who was one of the first nine students who graduated in 1855 from the newly formed School of Medicine at the Church of Scotland-affiliated University of Queen's College (1854, Kingston, Ont.). The nine senior students had transferred from the Anglican Upper Canada School of Medicine (Toronto) to the new school at Queen's.