A Pocket Surgical Instrument Set

English, late/early 20th Century, a composite set including steel tweezers, two plated forceps stamped J. HAYWARDS LONDON (fixed closed), a plated caustic holder stamped SILVER SEAMLESS, a plated sectioned case, two tortoiseshell lancets stamped J. HAYWARDS LONDON, a plated metal cased needle by MAYER & MELTZER, a plated cased thermometer, forceps, a scoop, a trocar and probe, with needles wrapped in paper, and two tubes of hypodermic tablets, in soft burgundy leather roll-up case with gold lettering for WALTER ESSEX WYNTER – 14cm. x 4cm. x 7cm. Note: According to the Royal College of Physicians, Walter Essex Wynter MD Lond FRCS (1885) FRCP (1897) (5 May 1860 - 4 January 1945) was the son of Andrew Wynter, M.D, who edited the British Medical Journal from 1855 to 1861 and practised at Chiswick. Walter qualified as a medic in 1883 and became an F.R.C.S. two years later. He worked in a junior capacity at the Brompton Hospital, the Hospital for Sick Children and the Middlesex Hospital. In 1891, he was elected an assistant physician at Middlesex Hospital. He became a full physician in 1901 and consulting physician when he retired in 1925, having lectured on practical medicine, pharmacology and medicine. During World War I he was attached as a major to the 3rd London General Hospital. He also co-authored A Manual of Clinical Pathology (1890), and published a collection of articles. Whilst primarily a physician, he had an interest in surgery. He advocated lumbar puncture, before this had become a routine measure, and recommended splenectomy in certain conditions for which it has since been accepted as a treatment. On retirement he founded the Essex Wynter Charity, which provides grants or accommodation for beneficiaries, who are past and current employees in need of the Middlesex and UCL Hospitals. For a fuller account please refer to: https://history.rcplondon.ac.uk/inspiring-physicians/walter-essex-wynter and Lancet, 1945; B.M.J., 1945; Middlesex Hospital Journal, 1945, xlv, 10. Previously bought at David Stanley Auctions 25th September, 1999.