Gallstone Spoon
notes: label: Description
content: A gallstone spoon was used to raise the gall bladder, thus facilitating the removal of stones. This form was associated with Edward Kemp Moore, a pathologist in the German Hospital in Philadelphia.
label: Description
content: Ref: V. Mueller & Co., Surgeon’s Instruments, Office and Hospital Equipment (Chicago, 1916), p. 145.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Missouri, St. Louis
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Donated by St. Louis Medical Society through Harry O. Cole & Gordon R. Garrett
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1977.0808.002
label: accession number
content: 1977.0808
label: catalog number
content: 1977.0808.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Spoon, Gallstone
label: Object Name
content: spoon, gallstone
label: Other Terms
content: Spoon, Gallstone; Surgery
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2.5 cm x 6.4 cm x 29.3 cm; in x 2 1/2 in x 11 9/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 3/8 in x 11 3/4 in x 2 1/2 in; 3.4925 cm x 29.845 cm x 6.35 cm