Tonsillotome
notes: label: Description
content: The Matthieu tonsillotome was devised by Louis-Joseph Mathieu (1817-1879), a surgical instrument maker in Paris with a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor (1862), a prize medal from the Inter-national Exhibition of 1867, and an 1857 English patent for an instrument for castrating cows and mares.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of William P. Evans
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-07316
label: catalog number
content: M-07316
label: accession number
content: 217731
objectType: label: Object Name
content: tonsillotome
label: Other Terms
content: Surgery
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 7/8 in x 2 3/16 in x 9 7/8 in; 2.2225 cm x 5.55625 cm x 25.0825 cm