Object Details
- Description
- Simple and perhaps incomplete example of an early tonsillotome with an ivory handle, that belonged to William Hallock Park (1863-1939), a physician who directed the Pathology, Bacteriology, and Disinfection Laboratory of the New York City Board of Health for many years. An inscription may read “G. TIEMANN & SONS / NEW YORK.”
- Ref: George Tiemann & Sons, American Armamentarium Chirugicum (New York, 1879), p. 65.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of the City of New York Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
- ID Number
- 2017.0184.002.19
- catalog number
- 2017.0184.002.19
- accession number
- 2017.0184
- Object Name
- surgical set
- tonsilotome
- tonsillotome
- Physical Description
- metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1.5 cm x 2.8 cm x 25.5 cm; 19/32 in x 1 3/32 in x 10 1/32 in
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- The Antibody Initiative
- Antibody Initiative: New York City Public Health Collections
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1845335
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b3-6cfa-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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