49 The Medical-Historical Collection In 2000, the Collection comprised some 300 objects. 2001 to 2004 was a particularly valuable period, with the Institute accepting numerous medical devices and equipment, including hospital furnishings from the University Hospital and the Faculty of Medicine. For example, the Surgical Clinic handed over a total of 219 objects of all kinds: rib shears, vascular staplers, abdominal wall holders and intestinal clamps. Technical devices and instruments for medical diagnostics and therapy, specifically developed at the Medical Academy “Carl Gustav Carus”, are an exclusive feature and the centerpiece of the collection. As evidence of the innovative research in the different specialist fields of medicine and its application in high-quality medical care, these objects allow a historical evaluation and illustration of the achievements of the Dresden institution. With this in mind, it has been possible to garner objects from medical technology that had been developed primarily during research into cryomedicine, endoscopy, electrotherapy, vascular surgery, endoprosthetics (the artificial replacement of joints) and implant medicine. What is more, the Institute now incorporated items donated by private individuals, mostly physicians or their heirs, into the collection. In this way, the inventory was not only supplemented with instruments and devices from private practices, but specifically with objects from former polyclinics run by East Germany’s state-owned firms with a focus on the field of occupational medicine. In 2002 and 2003 alone, some 220 individual items were donated. Of particular value are complete sets of instruments and devices. These include a set from the estate of the late Oschatz physician Leopold Wilhelm Lohmann, which was donated to the Institute in 2006. A total of 48 instruments and other objects, such as the examination case, provide insights into the everyday life of a general practitioner − who also made house calls in the surrounding villages − in the first half of the 20th century. Most of the objects originate from the time before World War I, with only a few dating back to around 1930. Diagnostic instruments such as a pocket set for laryngeal examinations or an electric hand-held ophthalmoscope are among the items, as are a chloroform anaesthesia mask, a metal bone saw, obstetrical forceps, and universal dental forceps. In 2003, the niece of Kurt Warnekros, Director of the Dresden State Women’s Clinic from 1925 to 1949, transferred ownership of her uncle’s written documents to the Institute. She also handed over the medical bag used by Warnekros when he was called to consultations, operations and deliveries in France, Sweden, Italy, Greece and Romania, or within Germany. Total hip joint prosthesis (two-piece, with press fitting) with transport case, circa. 1980 This prosthesis represented an early variant of hip joint replacement. Apparatus for cryotherapy in dermatology It was developed by the Dermatological Clinic of the Dresden Medical Academy in the 1980s and was also used there.
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