Lancet
notes: label: Description
content: Lancet with bone handle, and a "Rodgers Cutlers to Her Majesty" inscription on the blade. John William Stalnaker (1831-1883) used this lancet when he began medical practice in Wytheville, Virginia, in the 1850s, and later as a physician with the Confederate Army.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Civil War
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Paul R. Stalnaker, M.D.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-07017
label: catalog number
content: M-07017
label: accession number
content: 216104
objectType: label: Object Name
content: scalpels
label: Object Name
content: surgical instrument
label: Object Name
content: lancet
label: Other Terms
content: Surgery
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 5/16 in x 11/16 in x 5 1/8 in; .79375 cm x 1.74625 cm x 13.0175 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/8 in x 5/8 in x 5 1/8 in; .9525 cm x 1.5875 cm x 13.0175 cm