From the March 2012 issue of HealthCare Business News magazine
The picture and description appear courtesy of Dr. M. Donald Blaufox, M.D., Ph.D, from his website: www.mohma.org.

Each month we visit Dr. Blaufox’s Museum of Historical Medical Artifacts to take a look back at the medical equipment that cleared the way for what patients encounter in the doctor offices and operating rooms of today. Some equipment may be recognizable, while other inventions featured here have since become obsolete or have had their usefulness discredited.



Category: Urology
Estimated Date: 1868
Name: Wales Endoscope
Manufacturer: Horatio G. Kern
Description: 12” x 6“x 2” wooden box with leather cover embossed Wales Endoscope. Contains red velvet lining with four 9” tubes of varied diameter, one with right angle and 1” extension, as well as obturators. There is a 3.5” mirror on a brass stand with an attachment for a lens and a clamp to go on the end of the urethroscope. Two lenses are missing. There is a knife and possible caustic holder. Tiemann in the catalog listed as a reference illustrates the Otis endoscopic tube. One of the tubes in the Wales outfit is virtually identical.

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