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Specification of Richard Edward Hodges and William Brockedon : surgical instruments.
- Hodges, Richard Edward.
- Date
- 1857
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Description
Patent for "surgical instruments to be introduced into passages or orifices in cases where it is desired that parts of the instruments may expand when within passages or orifices... for relieving the bowels, urinary organs, and other passages." It also has an "application to cows to extract milk" and "to plug up gun-shot and other wounds".
Publication/Creation
London : Great Seal Patent Office, 1857 (London : George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode)
Physical description
5 pages, 1 folded leaf of plates : illustrations ; 28 cm
Contributors
Notes
At head of title: A.D. 1851. No. 13,674.
"Richard Edward Hodges, of Southampton Row, in the county of Middlesex, gentleman and William Brockedon, of Devonshire Street, in the same county, gentleman".
Type/Technique
Languages
- English
Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed storesPat. vol. 26Location Access Closed storesPat. vol. 26:18Note