Description

LÜER (Georges Guillaume Amatus). Autopsy and dissection box,

Paris, circa 1860.

Steel, ebony, wood and red velvet; box: 42x23x5.5cm.

Of German origin, Lüer (1802-1883) settled in Paris in 1830 where he first worked in the workshops of Frédéric Charrière, then for Samson. He founded his own company in 1837. The box does not have an address but bears a mark of ownership on the brass plate placed on the top of the box: “E. Goupil”. This is Ernest Goupil, who received his doctorate in medicine in 1855 and died prematurely on September 11, 1864. He was a doctor at the Saint-Antoine Hospital. He is responsible for the publication of a Medical Clinic on Women’s Diseases written with Bernutz (Paris, 1860-62). We can therefore date the box between 1855 and 1864.

The box is complete and the instruments, for the most part, are signed by Lüer.

The set consists of a round saw with a movable back, a two-ended insufflator, a hook hammer, three gouges or scissors, one hollow and two flat, a large forceps, enterotome scissors, a rachitome, four scalpels, three dissection knives, three chain erignes, a strong slightly curved dissection knife, two needles for sewing subjects and a small pair of scissors by Charrière.

Early autopsy box by one of the best French manufacturers of the mid-19th century, with a documented provenance of the period.

This set comes from a large collection of surgical instruments and microscopes, catalogue and list visible here : https://www.lezograscope.com/loc/fr_FR/catalogues.php