Museo Ottavio Badessa

COMPLETE INVENTORY OF DISPLAY CASE/SHOWCASE EQUIPMENT

FIRST ROOM

Section No. 1

• 4 Laryngeal Masks, designed in 1981 by Dr. Archie Brain

• 1 Prototype of the masks, donated by the inventor (held by only 2 museums in the world: R.C.A. in London and the Villafranca Museum)

• 3 Videocassettes demonstrating the operation of the masks

Section No. 2

• 1 Extractor for bladder stones in metal spiral and horsehair (mid-19th century – extremely rare instrument, only 2 known specimens in the world)

Above: High-relief pillar dedicated “To the Doctors Fallen in War”

Section No. 3

• 1 Crystal female urinal (pappagallo) – early 20th century

• 1 Majolica vaginal douche tool (late 19th century)

Section No. 4

• 3 Glass feeding bottles (used in France, late 19th century) – the 1st has the child’s name engraved and an ivory cap

Section No. 5

• 19 Disposable military vials for field blood sampling (with anticoagulant liquid still inside, needle embedded in the glass)

• Plaque of Cav. Dr. Ottavio Badessa, Physician and Surgeon

• 1 Needle container (early 20th century)

Section No. 6

• 6 Various syringes in bakelite and glass, metal and glass, or all glass, with regulating screw

• 2 Syringe holders

Section No. 7

• 1 Ring syringe with a long, thin needle for extensive local anesthesia (equipped with a two-way valve and suction spring)

• 1 Ring syringe with a long, thin needle for extensive local anesthesia (equipped with a two-way valve)

• 1 Metal box with ring syringe, needles of various gauges, and a two-way valve for cavity emptying

• 1 Ring syringe with a long curved nozzle for cavity irrigation

• 1 Insulin syringe with colored glass piston, in a metal box (1920s/30s)

• 2 Syringe holders

• 1 Videocassette

Section No. 8

• 1 Small pocket container with a bottle of “Salts” (ammonia) – 1920s/30s

• 8 Various glass injectors, some with bakelite parts

• 1 Cylindrical compressed cardboard container with a sealed vial containing a capillary

Section No. 9

Below:

• 1 Portable military anesthesia machine, complete and never used (tubes for nitrous oxide, oxygen, and air)

• 9 Various “Gord” needles, complete with container with spare rubber discs and tongue depressors (one with oxygen attachment)

• 3 Mouth gags for tonsillectomy

• 1 Heister mouth gag (also used as an intercostal retractor in thoracic surgery)

• 9 Various “tongue-pulling” forceps

• 1 Cyclopropane canister (highly explosive anesthetic gas)

• 2 Ethyl chloride spray vials (local anesthesia or induction)

• 2 Tongue depressors

• 1 Tube clamp

• 3 Nozzles

• 6 Tracheotomy cannulas

In the center:

• 1 Pulse watch

• 2 Military oxygen masks (USA)

• 1 Jackson pediatric laryngoscope in brass with built-in 6V lamp

• 1 Nasal anesthesia mask (dental procedures)

• 1 Braun anesthesia apparatus for Ether or Chloroform (1920s/1930s, military use)

• 1 Nasal anesthesia mask (second specimen)

• 1 Box with 16 nozzles + 2 external + 2 rubber cannulas

Above:

• 2 Bottles of sterile injectable solutions for hypodermoclysis

• 1 Anesthesia mask

• 2 Pressure gauges

Section No. 10-11

Below:

• 2 Aspirators with pressure gauge and push-button switch

• 2 Pressure gauges for O2 and N2O cylinders

• 1 Oxygen therapy regulator with pressure gauge

• 1 Colorimetric device for measuring CO2 in the anesthetic circuit

• 2 Pediatric “soda lime” containers

• 2 Ethyl chloride spray vials

• 1 Complete anesthesia apparatus with Trilene for minor procedures and analgesia in childbirth (with 5 vials) – formerly belonging to Dr. Ottavio Badessa

• 9 Analgizer tubes

• 1 Disposable mouthpiece for mouth-to-mouth resuscitation

In the center:

• 1 Large size bag for American respirator (circa 1930-40)

• 1 Rubber part to be applied to metal masks

• 1 Black bakelite mask with ether/chloroform reservoir and oxygen attachment

• 1 Red rubber mask with valve

• 2 Chrome-plated metal masks for short anesthesia with Ether or Ethyl Chloride

• 1 Schimmelbusch mask (1920s/30s – ether or chloroform anesthesia)

• 1 Juillard mask

• 2 Esmarch masks

• 1 Ether bottle

Above:

• 3 Bottles for ether or chloroform

• 1 Penthrane vaporizer

• 1 Metal dropper

• 2 Aspirator containers

• 1 Metal aspirator

Section No. 12

Below:

• 1 Ombredanne apparatus (French version ca. 1908-1910) for ether/chloroform, complete with dried pig’s bladder bag

• 1 Rendle ether mask (likely similar to the one used by Hewitt for King Edward VII in 1902)

• 1 Ombredanne apparatus (English version 1910/12) for ether/chloroform, complete with dried pig’s bladder bag

In the center:

• 1 Ombredanne apparatus (Italian version ca. 1909-10) for ether/chloroform, complete with box and dried pig’s bladder bag

• 2 Ombredanne apparatuses (Italian version – third and fourth specimens of the collection)

Above:

• 1 Complete set of rotameters and vaporizer

• 1 Trilene inhaler for analgesia in childbirth

• 1 Ether vaporizer from a Boyle anesthesia machine

Section No. 13

Below:

• 1 Complete set of 14 surgical instruments with oval container (American military: catgut, silk, needles, and sterilization box)

• 1 Roll of steel suture wire

• 1 Forceps for small eyelets of various sizes

• 2 Boxes with Paquelin Thermocautery + 12 metal pieces

• 2 Metal tools + 1 pouch with 5 files

In the center:

• 2 Vials with sterile catgut

• 1 Metal box for sterile compresses

• 12 Various surgical instruments

• 13 Extractors for bullets and foreign bodies

• 2 Suprapubic cannulas with ebony handles (mid-19th century)

• 1 Long knife with ebony handle for anatomical sectioning (mid-19th century)

• 2 Sterile threads

• 1 Diathermy handles

• 2 Tensioners for wire saw + metal wire

Above:

• 1 Scale (found in the operating complex of an old hospital)

• 1 American metal surgical instrument box (World War II)

• 1 Transformer for medical electrical devices (low voltage light)

Section No. 14

Below:

• 1 Military surgical box with 18 instruments (saw, hammer, ebony handle – late 18th century, Napoleonic battles?)

• 1 Complete set of 4 scalpels in their own metal box

• 1 Wooden box with 9 urethral dilators (formerly belonging to Dr. Ottavio Badessa)

• 5 Various urethral probes

• 1 “Gillette” device for sharpening razor blades in the operating room (1930s)

• 1 Electronic nerve detector for use during surgery (modern)

• 1 Durex box with rubber finger cots

In the center:

• 1 Circular support for vials to be sterilized

• 1 Bandage winder

• 1 Extensible forceps for picking up soiled gauze from the floor

• 1 Hemostasis instrument with brass screw systems (years 1718-1900)

• 1 Bilateral hernia containment belt in leather and hide (1940s/50s)

• 1 Needle container

• 1 Vaseline dispenser

• 7 Various probes and thin sounds

• 1 Sterilizable automatic deodorant and disinfectant emitter

Above:

• 1 Small autoclave basket

• 1 Electric boiler for sterilizing instruments and syringes (formerly belonging to Dr. Ottavio Badessa)

• 1 Bandage winder (second specimen)

• 1 New tool (cautery)

Section No. 15 – Corridor showcase (84 main tools)

• 2 Reflex hammers (formerly belonging to Dr. Ottavio Badessa)

• Various biopsy forceps

• 1 Whetstone for sharpening scalpels (used by Dr. Ottavio Badessa)

• 1 Tracheotomy retractor

• 1 Skull drilling instrument with depth regulator

• 2 Smallpox vaccination instruments

• 1 Famous painting by Rembrandt

• Forceps for applying and removing “clips” (dual use)

SECOND ROOM

Section No. 16

Below:

• 2 “High frequency” attachments and relative handle (see also Section No. 28)

• 1 Electroshock machine (gift of Prof. Nino Ioli)

In the center:

• 1 Boiler with 22 tools + group of 13 tools (gift of Doctors Arcangelo and Antonello Franco in memory of their father Dr. Rosario Franco, local physician)

Above:

• 5 Bottles and 3 books by Prof. Claude Jasmin

Section No. 17

Below:

• 2 Leaded gloves for radiology (hand protection for radiologist/orthopedist)

• 1 Fluorescent screen for fluoroscopy (used to see before taking the X-ray or for manipulation/fracture reduction)

• 1 Dental negatoscope (very rare instrument)

• 2 X-ray generating cathode tubes (taken from the Gorla-Siama apparatus used by Dr. Ottavio Badessa)

• 3 Lead containers for transporting radioisotopes

• 1 Apparatus for the production of radioisotopes (1950s/1960s)

• 3 “Plate-holding” tweezers

• 6 Darkroom lamps

In the center:

• 1 Microscope with 3 rotating objectives (early 20th century)

• 1 Nachet brass microscope with 2 rotating objectives, in a Nachet-marked box (late 19th century)

• 1 Drum microscope complete with box (first half of the 19th century)

• 1 Brass microscope with 2 rotating objectives – London, late 19th century

• 1 Maya figurine depicting a patient with angina pectoris

• 1 Maya figurine depicting an ascitic patient

• 1 Maya figurine depicting a Peruvian doctor

• 1 Wooden box

• 9 Glass slides + 4 glass vials

Above:

• 12 Bottles

Section No. 18

Below:

• 1 French ionizer complete with accessories and literature (4 volumes) – early 20th-century medicine for conveying drug ions to the body

In the center:

• 25 Dropper bottles (one with a label from the Cardiel Pharmacy in Caltagirone)

Above:

• 4 Bowls

Section No. 19

Below:

• 1 Box with 5 ophthalmic surgery tools with ivory and bone handles (mid-19th century, pre-sterilization)

• 1 Box with 4 tools + 1 small scissors for ophthalmic surgery

• 1 Box with 5 ophthalmic surgery tools (sterilizable, more recent)

• 6 Ophthalmic surgery tools

• 1 Small box with pen magnet (for metallic foreign bodies in the eye)

• 1 Slit lamp (donated by Dr. Umberto Mondello)

• 1 Javal ophthalmometer (donated by Dr. Umberto Mondello)

In the center:

• 1 Wilbur Marple ophthalmoscope (ivory handle, without electric current – year 1906)

• 1 Marple ophthalmoscope, complete with transformer attachment

• 1 Transformer for medical electrical devices

• 1 Box with 5 ophthalmic surgery tools

• 1 Small wooden box with ophthalmic scalpel (for cataracts)

• 3 Eye measurement tools

• 2 Bottles of eye drops

• 1 Book “Diseases of the Eye”

• 1 Book “The Fundus of the Eye”

• 1 Box with lens apparatus

• 1 Small bottle of refreshing drops

• 1 Tweezers

• 4 Lens containers

• 1 Small box with 16 enzyme sachets

Above:

• 31 Books

Section No. 20

Below:

• 4 Complete craniotomy sets with ebony handles (mid-19th century – for extracting the fetus in case of intrauterine death)

• 2 Gold-plated cannulas used as contraceptives (precursors to the “coil” – fixed to the cervix, very dangerous)

• 1 Metal box with instruments for uterine curettage (formerly belonging to Dr. Ottavio and Paolo Badessa): 19 retractors, 2 vaginal retractors, 14 curettes, 11 dilating instruments

In the center:

• 1 Electric nebulizer in its own box (late 19th/early 20th century)

• 4 Aerosol therapy units in four different models

• 1 Lady’s handbag aerosol

• 1 Complete “Silbe” atomizer

• 2 Boxes of backlit instruments for cavity exploration (1950s-60s)

• 3 “Medicine for Man” cases

• 1 Videocassette “Antibiotica colloquia”

• 21 Booklets

Above:

• 39 Volumes of general medicine (Testut – anatomy and others)

Section No. 21

Below:

• 4 Various childbirth instruments (forceps of various shapes and sizes)

• 1 Vacuum extractor for fetal extraction (in use since the late 1950s)

• 1 Instrument for looking inside the vagina (small size, for virgins)

• 2 “Corkscrew” tools for holding the uterus during hysterectomy

• 1 Uterine clamp for hysterectomy surgery

• 1 Pelvimeter (to assess pelvic width relative to the fetus)

• 1 Instrument for pulling the fetus

In the center:

• 1 Obstetric stethoscope in wood and rubber tube lined with silk braid (ca. 1910)

• 13 Pessaries of various sizes for vaginal prolapse

• 4 Pessaries in original box

• 1 Glass breast pump with ivory nozzle

• 1 Sleep bio-inducer for infants (1950s, simulates the maternal heartbeat)

• 2 Videocassettes (gastroenterology and systemic mycoses)

Above:

• 25 Volumes on internal medicine

Section No. 22

Below:

• 1 Ceramic foot warmer

• 1 Electromedical device by Dr. A. Mundo

In the center:

• 29 Various small bottles (some with Gugliotta Pharmacy label from Patti)

• 1 Metal container

Above:

• 10 Bottles

• 3 Containers

Section No. 23

Below:

• 1 Complete orthopedic box with 19 instruments for surgery

• 2 Antique drills for orthopedic surgery (one with attachment for Kirschner wire – operating at 120V, 1930s-40s)

• 1 Thickness gauge

• 1 Spatula

• 1 Surgical instrument for fixing “greenstick” fractures

• 6 Various bridges for phalangeal traction

• 1 Electric vibro-massager complete with accessories (1930s-40s)

• 1 Manual hand-cranked vibro-massager (Scandinavian, 1920s-30s)

• 1 Working “drop” drill (150V)

• 1 Bone-cutting wire

• 6 Various tools

In the center:

• 3 Sluder “guillotines” for tonsillectomy

• 1 Box complete with mirror otoscope, magnifying lenses, and small mirror

• 1 Folding metal tongue depressor

• 2 “Tuning forks” (formerly belonging to Dr. Ottavio and Paolo Badessa)

• 2 Extensible mirrors for otologists

• 1 Brunton otoscope in silvered nickel silver with optical prism and lenses (late 19th century, very rare instrument)

• 1 Adjustable nasal retractors

• 1 Corkscrew-style otological instrument for earwax plugs

• 2 Large frontal syringes for irrigation (one in glass and metal, one in bauxite – early 1900s)

• 2 Head mirrors for ENT

• 1 Hearing aid for the deaf with battery and headband (early 1900s)

Above:

• 12 Volumes “Medica Italiana”

• 2 Volumes “Human Anatomy”

• 36 Various volumes

Section No. 24

Below:

• 1 Box with 2 glass containers, red rubber tube, dropper, and needle for blood transfusions (bears the name of Prof. Dogliotti)

• 1 Special plastic infuser for liquids and special substances (modern)

• 1 Luminous sign for the car of the “Doctor on Home Visit” (formerly belonging to Dr. Paolo Badessa, 1950s)

• 1 Box with oscillometer for measuring arterial tone in the limbs

• 1 Box with oscillometer for measuring circulation in the lower limbs

• 1 Complete box of “Arial Disk”

• 1 Box with Ismelin vials (for sympathetic-type limb pain)

• 11 Modern “Port-a-Cath” for chemotherapy (various sizes and materials)

In the center:

• 2 Glass drippers with ground-glass stopcock (for laboratories)

• 1 Glass and water “Venturi” aspirator (for analysis laboratories)

• 1 Glass goblet with 3 hydrometers for various liquids

• 1 Spirit burner (laboratory spirit lamp)

• 1 Small tube of “Cafiaspirina”

• 1 Small laboratory bottle

• 4 Tweezers for clamping rubber tubes

• 1 Container with thermometer

• 2 Empty containers

• 1 Thermometer

• 1 Box of “State Quinine” tablets

• 1 Box with 6 glass cupping jars with suction pump (early 1900s)

• 1 Box with 12 glass cupping jars complete with large metal syringe

• 1 White rubber instrument

Above:

• 12 Various tools

• 1 Syringe with 3 boxes of needles

• 4 Needle containers (donated by Dr. Mundo)

• 65 Various books and Ciba magazines

Section No. 25

Below:

• 1 Apparatus for “Therapeutic Pneumothorax” complete with box (1930s/40s – for pulmonary tuberculosis)

• 1 Nasal oxygen diffuser (modern)

• 1 New and modern reflex hammer

• 2 Boxes with equipment for thoracentesis (1940s/1950s)

• 2 Boxes for “thoracentesis” (perfect, with syringe, tubes, needles, directional valves)

• 1 Scarificator for smallpox vaccination

• 3 “Trocar” tips with cannulas of various sizes (for draining ascites)

• 1 Triangular-shaped object in brass-plated metal

• 1 Metal container

In the center:

• 2 Attachments for enema in black bakelite

• 1 Large pewter syringe for “self-enema” (late 19th century, bought in London)

• 1 Complete box for pediatric enema in pewter (horn nozzle, silk tube – second half of the 19th century)

• 1 Apparatus for baptizing the child before birth (with holy water, inserted into the uterus)

• 1 Large pewter syringe for rectal therapy

• 1 Complete phonendoscope in a chrome-plated metal box (1940s/50s)

• 1 Complete box for sympathicotherapy with 5 pieces and instructions in French

• 1 Tube of “Preludin” tablets (contained amphetamine, used as an anorectic)

• 1 Phonendoscope with strap without tubes

• 1 Circular Swedish cardboard box for “Pharmacy” tablets

• 1 Wooden stethoscope (formerly belonging to Dr. Ottavio Badessa, used for many years)

• 2 Tabletop mercury sphygmomanometers (1940s/50s)

• 1 Small container for menthol

• 1 Dispenser box for wooden tongue depressors

• 3 Attachments for enema in black bakelite

Above:

• 39 Various volumes

Section No. 26

Below:

• 1 Wooden box with 3 drawers: 1st drawer (23 pieces), 2nd drawer (10 pieces), 3rd drawer (9 pieces) – complete equipment for an itinerant dentist

• 1 Metal box

• 1 Box with 1 syringe and 3 needles

In the center:

• 1 Ultrasonic device for dental tartar removal (one of the first for this type of therapy)

• 3 Metal tools for tartar

• 3 Bottles

• 2 Tools with rubber tube

Above:

• 4 Swedish Pharmacy bottles (about a century ago, from the auction of a deceased Swedish pharmacist’s house)

Section No. 27

Below:

• 1 Large-size rotating magnet electro-medical device (early 1900s, Faradic current, in a wooden box with key)

• 1 Rotating magnet electro-medical device, smaller box with brass braid conductors (late 19th century, “Electrotherapy for nervous diseases”)

• 1 Battery-powered electro-medical device for electrotherapy (early 1900s)

• 1 Potassium Bichromate and Sulfuric Acid electromedical device, complete with accessories and instructions (last half of the 19th century)

• 1 English battery-powered electro-medical device for electrotherapy (early 1900s)

• 2 Small glass bottles + 1 instruction sheet

In the center:

• 3 Objective holders + 2 boxes with slides

• 1 Brass microscope with a single objective, very antique (London, late 19th century)

• 1 Brass “field” microscope with 2 objectives and circular slides (early 1900s)

• 1 Mounted microscope lenses for vascular/ophthalmic microsurgery, in their own box (1920s/30s)

Above:

• 5 Swedish pharmacy bottles

Section No. 28

Below:

• 1 Complete apparatus for “High frequency” therapy with 10 pieces (neuromuscular stimulator, early 1900s, working)

• 20 “High frequency” attachments with relative handle

In the center:

• 1 Box with 50 tablets + 20 Laudanum tablets

• 1 Bottle of iodine tincture for external use

• 1 Box with 50 tablets of Basic Bismuth Nitrate and opium (empty)

• 1 Box of Adrenaline Hydrochloride T.V. with 6 vials

• 1 Bottle of Acetylsalicylic Acid

• 3 Various small bottles in clear glass

• 5 Various small bottles with red caps (gift of Dr. Franco Arcangelo)

• 4 Various small bottles

• 1 Small box of Narcopon Coronidi with 2 vials

• 3 Small metal boxes for needles of various sizes

• 1 White rectangular container with 1 saw + 14 scissors

• 23 Various tools

• 1 Box of metal needles

• 2 Boxes with 2 metal syringes

• 1 ENT device with 3 metal ear cones

• 1 Metal box

• 1 Metal knife for filing

• 1 Various tool

• 2 Small metal tools

Above:

• 61 Various books

• 5 Bottles and 3 books by Prof. Claude Jasmin (great oncologist from Paris)

EXHIBITS OUTSIDE THE SHOWCASES

• 1 Zeiss refractometer no. 1656 (ca. 1930) – donated by Mr. Umberto Mondello

• 2 Straitjackets used in Italian asylums – donated by Prof. Nino Ioli

• 1 Mannequin – donated by Mr. and Mrs. Nino and Nunzia Rizzo

• 1 Blood coagulation device – gift of Dr. Antonino Mundo

DONATION BY DR. ANTONINO MUNDO (09/25/2005)

• 11 Various medical tools/instruments

• 35 Volumes “Opera Medica” by A. Wassermann and Co. (Nos. 95–132, excluding 101, 122, 129)

• 6 Volumes “Minerva Dermatologica” (years 1966-1975)

• 2 Volumes Allergy – Allergic and Allergological Diseases (Ed. Vallardi)

• 2 Volumes Differential Medical Diagnostics (Fieschi-Wassermann)

• 38 Volumes Ciba magazine (Nos. 10–50, excluding 43, 45, 46)

• 1 Volume “Terapia” (M. Messini – V. Meccli, Ed. Universo Rome)

• 1 Volume “Medicina d’Urgenza” (Ed. Universo Rome)

• 1 Volume “Current Diagnosis” (Howard F. Conn, Ed. Universo)

• 1 “Manuale di Pediatria” (R. Jemma, Soc. Editrice Libraria Milan)

• 2 Volumes “Compendio di Anatomia Descrittiva Umana” (Ed. Vallardi)

• 1 Volume “Ormonoterapia in Ginecologia” (Joachim Ufer, Morgaghi Ed.)

• 1 Volume “Traitement des Maladies Véthéeuses des Membres Inférieurs” (Doin, J.D. Martinet)

• 1 Volume “Atlas der Hautkrankheiten und der Syphilide” – Dr. S. Ehrmann, 1912 (very antique)