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
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Data Source
National Museum of American History
Link to Original Record
Record ID
nmah_1845335