Tonsillotome
date: label: date made
content: about 1924
name: label: maker
content: Mueller, V.
notes: label: Description
content: The Sluder-Arrowsmith Tonsil Guillotine had a round opening rather than an oval ring. The form was designed by Greenfield Sluder (1865-1928), an ear, nose and throat physician in St Louis; modified by Hubert Arrowsmith (1865-1931), an ear, nose and throat physician in Brooklyn; and manufactured by V. Mueller & Co., of Chicago.
label: Description
content: Ref: H. Arrowsmith, “Modification of the Sluder Tonsillotome,” The Laryngoscope 24 (1914): 700.
label: Description
content: “Hubert Arrowsmith, Physician, Succumbs,” New York Times (Aug. 10, 1931), p. 15.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
setName: label: See more items in
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: 1977.0808.007
label: accession number
content: 1977.0808
label: catalog number
content: 1977.0808.007
objectType: label: Object Name
content: tonsilotome
label: Object Name
content: tonsillotome
label: Other Terms
content: Surgery
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2.2 cm x 13 cm x 15 cm; 7/8 in x 5 1/8 in x 5 7/8 in