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Emergency Medicine: branch of medicine concerned with an individual's resuscitation, transportation and care from the point of injury or beginning of illness through the hospital or other emergency treatment facility.

First aid kit

Surgery (General): a specialty in which manual or operative procedures are used in the treatment of disease, injuries, or deformities.

Aspirating attachment set

Aspirator, piston pump

Dissection kit, standard

Fleam, three bladed

Speculum, tubular

Surgical pocket case, compact metal

Suture set

Vein stripper set

Neurosurgery: concerned with the treatment of diseases and disorders of the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral and sympathetic nervous system.

Trephine, conical

Obstetrics & Gynecology: obstetrics is concerned with management and care of women before, during, and after pregnancy; gynecology is concerned with the physiology and disorders primarily of the female genital tract.

Fetoscope

Forceps, obstetrical

Uterine tent set [dilators]

Ophthalmology: concerned with the structure and function of the eye and the medical and surgical treatment of its defects and diseases.

Ophthalmoscope

Ophthalmoscope, 1920s

Ophthalmoscope, refraction

Spectacle frame, trial (1920s)

Spectacle frame, trial (1950s)

Spectacles (early 1800s)

Spectacles (20th century)

Spectacles (late 19th-early 20th century)

Spectacles, magnifying

Sunglasses, clip on

Orthopedics: utilizes medical, surgical, and physical methods to treat and correct deformities, diseases, and injuries to the skeletal system, its articulations, and associated structures.

Chain saw

Otolaryngology: concerned with the study and treatment of disorders of the ear, nose, and throat.

Air bag

Aural curette

Aural curette set

Mirror set, laryngeal

Otoscope

Otoscope and charger unit

Specula set, ear

Syringe, ear

Urology: concerned with the study, diagnosis, and treatment of diseases of the urinary tract in both sexes and the genital tract in the male.

Urethrotome

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