Small metal eye speculum with a loop on one end and two arms on the other for keeping the eyelids apart.
Provenance
Acquired from the Academy of Medicine; source: Dr. J. Hannah of Toronto; Dr. Weston L. Herriman.
Dates
1890
1920
circa 1890-1920
Permanent Location
Storage Room 0010
0010-E4-10
Copy Type
Original
Reference Types
Document
Reference Comments
UHN artefact files;
Research Facts
An eye speculum is an instrument for keeping the eyelids apart during inspection of or operation on the eye.
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, Ontario). The nine senior students had transferred from the Anglican Upper Canada School of Medicine (Toronto) to the new school at Queen's.