Tonsillotome
name: label: maker
content: Ermold, George
notes: label: Description
content: According to advertisements, the Ermold tonsilotome (sic) has “Two Cutting Edges Like Scissors” and “Is Stronger and Simpler, has less small pieces, is easier cleaned and disinfected than any other.” It was designed and made by George Ermold (1858-1931) an immigrant from Germany who served as the first president of the Surgical Instrument Association of Greater New York. An inscription on this example refers to patents of Feb. 19, 1895 and May 9, 1901.
label: Description
content: Ref: Advertisement for Ermold’s Tonsilotome in Wm. P. Northrup, Treatment of Acute Laryngeal Stenosis (New York, ca. 1894).
label: Description
content: George Ermold, “Tonsilotome,” U.S. Patent 534,433 (Feb. 19, 1895).
label: Description
content: George Ermold, “Tonsilotome,” U.S. Patent 678,334 (July 9, 1901), assigned to the George Ermold Company of New York.
label: Description
content: “George Ermold,” New York Times (Sept. 7, 1931), p. 13.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Donated by St. Louis Medical Society through Harry O. Cole & Gordon R. Garrett
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1977.0808.073
label: accession number
content: 1977.0808
label: catalog number
content: 1977.0808.073
objectType: label: Object Name
content: tonsilotome
label: Object Name
content: tonsillotome
label: Other Terms
content: Surgery
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 5/8 in x 2 1/4 in x 8 3/4 in; 1.5875 cm x 5.715 cm x 22.225 cm