The surgical instruments for extirpation of soft part, fluids, and teeth, as well as for incision, are placed in the following twelve drawers:
No. II, CUCURBITAE ET SCALPELLA, with small glass and brass cups, phlebotomes, i.e., bloodletting lancets, and scalpels for extracting blood;
No. IV, PRO FOLICULATIS TUMORIBUS, with cutters, tweezers, hooks, and other implements for removing follicular growths such as sebaceous cysts;
No. IX, PRO POLYPIS NARIUM, with a complete set of instruments for extracting nasal polyps;
No. X, called ODONTAGRA, a term for the pliers used to extract teeth—present here, along with instruments for conservative therapy (probes, files, cauteries, and scrapers);
No. XI, ORIS SPECULA ET BASSALINQUA, OSTAGRA ET PARISTHMIOTOMI, contains mouth clamps, tongue depressors, tonsillotomes, and ostagra;
No. XII, AQUAEPUNCTORIA, with compressors, needles, and cannules for extracting fluids and a trocar for performing tracheotomy;
No. XIII, PRO PECTORE ET PRO CELOTOMIA, for extracting pleural fluids, herniotomy, and lithotomy;
No. XIV, CATHETERES ET SYRINGA, with catheters for draining urine from the bladder, syringes, and spray-pumps to inject medications in the genitals;
No. XXII, PRO FISTULA ANI, with instruments for surgery on anal fistules; at the top center, between two knives, a specimen of the instrument used by Giovanni Alessandro Brambilla to perform an operation on Emperor Joseph II of Austria (1741-1790) on August 18, 1789.
Other extraction instruments are stored in drawers no. III, FORFICES, with small scissors and pliers for nails, and nos. XXIII and XXIV, both labeled ENTERENCHYTAE, with clyster pipes and tobacco-smoke insufflators.
The instruments were made by the cutler Joseph Malliard.