Tonsillotome
date: label: date made
content: about 1860
name: label: maker
content: Charriere, Joseph
notes: label: Description
content: Tonsillotome with an ivory handle and a “Charrier a Paris” inscription. The form was designed by Alfred-Armand-Louis-Marie Velpeau (1795-1867), a prominent surgeon and anatomist in Paris. In French it was termed an amygdalotome.
label: Description
content: Ref: Charrier, Catalogue d’Instruments (Paris, 1855), p. 42.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1978.0874.02
label: accession number
content: 1978.0874
label: catalog number
content: 1978.0874.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: surgical instrument
label: Object Name
content: tonsillotome
label: Object Name
content: tonsillotome
label: Object Name
content: tonsilltome
label: Other Terms
content: Surgery
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 8.5 cm x 2.8 cm x 27.8 cm; 3 11/32 in x 1 3/32 in x 10 15/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 in x 11 in x 3 1/4 in; 2.54 cm x 27.94 cm x 8.255 cm