Surgical Chain Saw
notes: label: Description
content: Leonardo Gigli (1863-1908), an Italian surgeon, developed the surgical chain saw in the late nineteenth century.
label: Description
content: Ref: W. W. Keen, “On the Use of the Gigli Wire Saw to Obtain Access to the Brain,” The Philadelphia Medical Journal (Jan. 1, 1889): 323-33.
label: Description
content: Dan Aurel Nica, et. al., “Leonardo Gigli and the Gigli Saw—Gigli Redividus,” World Neurosurgery 135 (March 2020): 35-37.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1985.0581.08
label: catalog number
content: 1985.0581.08
label: accession number
content: 1985.0581
objectType: label: Object Name
content: chain saw
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall, blade: 1/8 in x 11 5/8 in x 1 5/8 in; .3175 cm x 29.5275 cm x 4.1275 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall, handles, each: 3/8 in x 1 3/4 in x 2 3/8 in; .9525 cm x 4.445 cm x 6.0325 cm