Object Details
- Description
- Surgical saw with a steel blade, ebony handle, and "TIEMANN / N. YORK" inscription. This form was often termed a “Satterlee Saw” or “Satterlee’s Saw”. The name may refer to Richard Satterlee (1798-1880), a surgeon who commanded the Union Army Medical Purveyor’s Office in New York City during the Civil War.
- Ref: Codman and Shurtleff, Illustrated Catalogue of Surgical Instruments (Boston, 1875), p. 26.
- George Tiemann & Co., The American Armamentarium Chirugicum (New York, 1879), p. 2.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Frances M. Cosine
- ID Number
- MG.M-02218
- accession number
- 95819
- catalog number
- M-02218
- Object Name
- Saw
- saw
- surgical set
- amputation set
- Other Terms
- Saw; Cutting Tool; Amputatiom
- Physical Description
- wood, ebony (overall material)
- metal, steel (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 5/8 in x 16 1/4 in x 4 in; 1.5875 cm x 41.275 cm x 10.16 cm
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1054293
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a8-f082-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
