Liston Knife
date: label: date made
content: 1871-1874
notes: label: Description
content: Robert Liston (1794-1847) was a Scottish surgeon noted for his skill and speed in an era before anesthetics, when speed was especially important. A typical Liston knife had a long thin blade. This example has an ivory handle.
label: Description
content: Ref: Robert Liston, Practical Surgery (London, 1837).
label: Description
content: George Tiemann & Co., The American Armamentarium Chirugicum (New York, 1879), p. 4.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Transfer from U.S. Department of Health, Education & Welfare. Public Health Service
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1980.0349.09.049
label: catalog number
content: 1980.0349.09.049
label: accession number
content: 1980.0349
objectType: label: Object Name
content: knife
label: Object Name
content: surgical set
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 7/8 in x 14 3/8 in x 1/2 in; 2.2225 cm x 36.5125 cm x 1.27 cm