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This Ebay listing is for the sale of a CD ROM
title:
Hatteroth's Surgical Catalogue, 1869.
This is a CD ROM
edition presented in PDF file format. Illustrated Catalogue of surgical
instruments.
This is a great reference guide for collectors of Antique medical / surgical
tools and instruments from the Victorian Era!
Sample pages from this CD
Contains 597 pages with illustrations.
Presented in easy to view PDF file format.
Allows Zoom-in up to 300% to enlarge sections of the pages
for easy reading.
Allows Printing of pages on your own printer.
Allows Copy and paste page image to other applications like
a word processor or image editors.
(PDF files require PDF file reader to open and view. PDF
file reader software can be downloaded for free at www. adobe. com)
Catalogs have always performed several roles
in the trades and societies they have served and purveyed goods into.First of
all, catalogs educated us as to the current state of the art in commercially
available goods. Second, they raise our expectations when we see new goods,
ideas, designs, tools, and the methods or lifestyles that they imply or
denote.Third, the stimulate us to look to create new methods, ideas, protocols,
lifestyles, tools, and technologies or designs of our own. Fourth, they are both
time capsules and travel guides to the past and the present in their respective
régimes or areas of focus. They take us to exotic places and people and ideas we
would never have encountered in our own lives or professional practices or work
or schools and they show us the progression of others ideas from the old tools
or products offered, to the newest and most progressive ones. Catalogs are the
things dreams are made of, sometimes in plebian and profane ways as we covet
what we see in them, and sometimes in the most elevated and profound and
spiritually and intellectually inspiring ways as we see possibilities to evolve
the future in most wondrous ways.
This catalog is a time capsule, a time travel machine, a “Mr. Peabody’s Way-back
Machine” to take us back in time to yesteryear where we can see what state of
the art and its precedent history and tools were.This surgical catalog was the
premier catalog and surgical tools reference at its time for America, and as
such reflects the medical practice and thinking of the time.Invaluable for
historians, it is also a fascinating glimpse with its excellent illustrations
and explanations, as to how thought was at the time in medicine and society
about medicine and surgery. Excellent illustrations of every instrument and
superb explanations make this still a useful surgical tool review.
The diversity of instruments included represent nearly every single instrument
of every kind of every purpose available at the time.
This is the second edition of Dr. WM Hatteroth’s Surgical Catalogue who in 1869
at this time of publication claimed 42 years of serving the medical profession
in America out of their facility on Powell Street in San Francisco.
A wonderful read and one that is an education for every medical student or
nurse, and a fascinating one for historians, and just plain fun and amazing for
the rest of us! Enjoy this one, whether a collector of these wondrous
instruments or a surgeon the beautiful illustrations and explanations will leave
you impressed, indeed.
User friendly PDF file format, the CD ROM is
Microsoft Windows as well as MAC compatible.
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