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Dental Drill - Pedal Operated, circa 1910
Reg. No: SH 850029
- Summary:
- Pedal-operated dental drill used for dental treatment of patients at Lakeside Mental Hospital Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, circa 1910. Manufactured by White, S.S., Dental Manufacturing Co.
- Description:
- fitted with scaler. It fits inside a slit-sided tube held tightly by a small, double-ended belt which in its turn fits into another shaft with slit-sided end and is decoratively texture and waisted. This whole section rotates to turn drill. It fits inside a still wider shaft, at the end of which are 3 cog-wheels. Inner shaft emerges just above biggest cog, but doesn't connect. Bottom of outer shaft forms hollow square with short ornately-shaped column on one side and vertically rotating lever shaped like a tiny spanner on the other.
- Acquisition Information:
- Donation from Lakeside Mental Hospital, Office of Psychiatric Services
| Discipline: | History |
| Dimensions: | 3.00 cm (Height), 3.00 cm (Width), 24.00 cm (Length) |
More information
| Tagged with: | dental instruments, mental health, mental health institutions, psychiatric hospitals |
| Themes this item is part of: | Psychiatric Services Collection, Medicine in Society Collection, Public Life & Institutions Collection |
| Primary Classification: | MEDICINE & HEALTH |
| Secondary Classification: | Mental Health - Dentistry |
| Tertiary Classification: | surgical equipment |
| Inscriptions: | Engraved: THE S.S. WHITE DENTAL MFG.CO./PAT'S FEB. 18. 79/PATENT APPLIED FOR. |
| Manufacturer: | S.S. White Dental Manufacturing Co., circa 1910 |
| Place & Date Used: | Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, 1892-1920 |
| References: | Label on exhibit. Bennion, Eliz. Antique medical instruments, Sotheby Parke Bernet, London 1979. S Maw, Son & Sons, Cat.of Surg.Ins.Ldn 1902 |
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