Specification of Isaiah Lukens : surgical instrument.

  • Lukens, Isaiah, 1779-1846.
Date:
1857
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Specification of Isaiah Lukens : surgical instrument. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Farrer. Lukens Surgical Instrument for Destroying the Stone in the Bladder, dfc. Fig. 5th. I, K, the duck-bill forceps. 0, 0, the bills; A, the inner tube; N, a small collar, attached to the branches of the inner tube, for the purpose of closing the bills ; M, a ring, for the thumb or finger of the operator. Fig. 6th. E, F, a drill, with a square cutting end ; L, a small cone, to prevent the escape of urine; r, a collar, with a fastening screw to regulate 5 the drilling, and to prevent injury being done to the patient. Fig. 7th. G, H, a rimmer; V, an arm, moving on a pivot; S, a cone to prevent the escape of urine; T, a collar and fastening screw to regulate the movement. Fig. 8th, a drill stock, enclosed in a cylinder so as to prevent the cord H 10 from being disengaged. L, a square hole, for the reception of the drill $ G, the breastplate or base. In witness whereof, I, the said Isaiah Lukens, have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Fourteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and twenty-six. 15 ISAIAH LUKENS. (l.s.) AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Fourteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord 1826, the aforesaid Isaiah Lukens came before our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification afore¬ said, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above 20 written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose. Inrolled the Fourteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and twenty-six. LONDON: Printed by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode,