Tonsilotome
notes: label: Description
content: Morell Mackenzie (1837-1892), an eminent British physician who specialized in diseases of the throat, modified the Physick tonsillotome, largely by adding a stout handle that could be placed on either side. This Mackenzie tonsillotome belonged to William Hallock Park (1863-1939), a physician who directed the Pathology, Bacteriology, and Disinfection Laboratory of the New York City Board of Health for many years.
label: Description
content: Ref: Morell Mackenzie, Diseases of the Throat and Nose (Philadelphia, 1880), vol. 1, pp. 26-30.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: The Antibody Initiative
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content: Antibody Initiative: New York City Public Health Collections
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of the City of New York Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2017.0184.002.21
label: catalog number
content: 2017.0184.002.21
label: accession number
content: 2017.0184
objectType: label: Object Name
content: surgical set
label: Object Name
content: tonsilotome
label: Object Name
content: tonsillotome
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3.2 cm x 12.1 cm x 19.1 cm; 1 1/4 in x 4 3/4 in x 7 17/32 in