RIVERVIEW HOSPITAL / MEDICAL AND THERAPEUTIC ENDOSCOPE (RV0472)
Wooden rectangular box with hinged lid and two clasps. A plastic instruction card attached to the inside of the box lid identifies this instrument as a STERNMCCARTHY VISUAL PROSTATIC ELECTROTOME WITH MCCARTHY FOROBLIQUE VISUAL SYSTEM. The kit includes the electrotome and attachments. Provenance: An electrotome is an electric cutting instrument used in electrosurgery. The resectoscope has a built-in wire loop that uses high-frequency electrical current to cut or coagulate tissue. It is used for surgery of the prostate without having to make an incision (transurethral prostrate surgery). The first modern resectoscope, the Stern-McCarthy Prostatic Electrotome, was introduced in 1932 by Joseph F. McCarthy. His improved design (including a bakelite sheath) incorporated elements of previous designs by Maximilian Stern, Theodore M. Davis, and Reinhold Wappler.
EYEDROPPER (RV1041)
Clear hollow tube narrows to a point at one end, where there is a small opening. The other end has a rubber bulb.
FLASK (RV0823)
A spherical clear glass bulb has a cylindrical neck with two hollow glass tubes curving from it and attaching to two hollow pipettes with bulbous midsections, which are attached to the bottom of the spherical bulb. There is a central pipette coming from the bottom of the sphere and meeting the end of the two flaring hollow tubes at the point where a burette goes.
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Provenance: From the laboratory at the Crease Clinic. Similar (if not identical) flasks sit on the counter of an undated photograph of the Crease Clinic laboratory. The stoppers and stands in the photograph are not in the collection.