Black vulcanite oval disc with shoulders at each end for use with a percussor in auscultation.
Provenance
Acquired from the Academy of Medicine; source: Dr. J. Hannah of Toronto; Dr. Weston L. Herriman.
Dates
1880
1910
1880-1910
Permanent Location
Storage Room 0010
0010-F4-7
Condition Remarks
#2: no chips or cracks
Copy Type
Original
Reference Types
Document
Reference Comments
UHN artefact files
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.
Exhibit History
On exhibit "When Medicine Met Science," Museum of Health Care, April 29, 2003 - 25 Jan 2017