Instrumentenkast van het Goudse Chirurgijns Gilde.

This cabinet was used to store the surgeons’ medical instruments. They might not look it now, at the end of the seventeenth century these instruments were considered state-of-the-art. Loanable to local surgeons, it was the guild assistant’s task to return each object to the cabinet.

Instrument cabinet of the Gouda Surgeons’ Guild
1699

Instrumentenkast van het Goudse Chirurgijns Gilde
eikenhout, gedateerd: ‘1699’ (middenonder)
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In deze instrumentenkast bewaarden de gildebroeders de gemeenschappelijke medische instrumenten. Oude instrumenten werden regelmatig vervangen door nieuwe. Ze vielen onder de verantwoordelijkheid van de gildeknecht: hij moest erop toezien dat uitgeleende instrumenten weer werden terugbezorgd.
De kast is versierd met de familiewapens van de overman en de dekens van het gilde in 1699, het jaar waarin de kamer werd ingericht. Aan de onderrand bevindt zich het embleem van het gilde, het pentagram (vijfpuntige ster) met de zon en de twee sterren.

Instrument's cabinet of the Gouda Chirurgeon's Guild
oak wood, dated: '1699'
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In this cabinet all the guild's shared medical instruments were stored. They were carefully looked after, old instruments were replaced by new ones on a regular basis. The guild's servant was to look after the contents of the cabinet and see to it that the instruments were returned after use.
The cabinet is adorned with the coats of arms of the chairman and four deans of the Gouda Chirurgeon's Guild in 1699, the year in which the room was furnished. On the lower ridge the guild's official emblem, the pentagram (five-pointed star) with sun and two stars, is carved.