Surgery


Cautery (7), transformator

 

 

   The transformer presented here consists of two current transformers:
- the left, from which the cautery was fed.
- The right, the power for the illumination of medical endoscopes (headlamp, cystoscope, etc.) supplied.

Félix Maloine made surgical instruments around 1912 (Catalog d'Instruments de chirurgie 1912)
Not to be confused with A. Maloine, who published medical books in Paris around 1880/1905 ...

 



The presented device comes from the estate of the 1913 Clerf established doctor Guillaume KOENER. Since his anticlerical attitude had denied him access to the hospital of the Franciscan nuns in Clervaux, KOENER had to make use of this and similar devices in his private practice ...



A similar box can be found in the catalog "Guillot, Fernand - Catalog illustré d'instruments de chirurgie, d'appareils de médecine et d'orthopédie, Paris: s.n. [Ivry: Impr. Of Ets Hyperparaf, 1934" from 1934
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