Metal head reflector that might be worn by surgeons. Inscriptions read “JETTER & SCHEERER” and “CHIRURG / GERMANY”. Gottfried Jetter (1838-1903) was a German surgical instrument maker who trained in Paris; in 1887, having been joined by his brothers-in-law, William and Karl Christian Scheerer, the firm became Jetter & Scheerer.
With the Reinhardt desiccator, “the whole interior space can be used.” And, “the air-tight ground glass cover cannot slip off, as the flange around the top is slightly turned upward.” C. Reinhardt (1859-1905), a German chemist, introduced the form in the 1890s.
Ref: Eimer & Amend, Revised and Enlarged Catalogue of Bacteriological Apparatus (New York, 1907), p. 157.
Steel adenoid curette with a “W. F. FORD / S.I. CO. N.Y.” inscription. Jacob Gottstein (1832-1895), an otologist in Breslau, introduced the form in 1886. William Fraser Ford (1820-1897) was a machinist from England who arrived in New York in 1848 and worked with several surgical instrument makers. His firm became Wade & Ford in 1861, and William F. Ford & Co. after the Civil War.
This example came from the Surgical Set of Dr. William Park of the City of New York Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.