Surgical Stapler
notes: label: Description
content: Surgical stapler of the sort devised in 1921 by the Hungarian surgeon, Aladar von Petz (1888-1956).
label: Description
content: Ref: Pearl S. Buck, “The Chasm: Amazing things like radio pills and surgical staplers happen when doctors and engineers get together,” The Rotarian (July 1963): 34-37.
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 Dr. Mark M. Ravitch, Montefiore Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1979.1092.02
label: accession number
content: 1979.1092
label: catalog number
content: 1979.1092.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: surgical stapler
label: Object Name
content: stapler, surgical
label: Object Name
content: surgical instrument
label: Other Terms
content: Surgery
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/2 in x 18 in x 7 1/8 in; 6.35 cm x 45.72 cm x 18.0975 cm