Surgery Hook
notes: label: Description
content: Surgery hook known as a Kelly applicator, sold by Kny-Scheerer. The name refers to Howard Atwood Kelly (1858-1943), a graduate of the Medical School at the University of Pennsylvania who served as a founding professor at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. Kelly was also credited with establishing gynecology as a specialty.
label: Description
content: Ref: Howard Atwood Kelly, Operative Gynecology (New York, 1899).
label: Description
content: The Kny-Scheerer Co., Illustrations of Surgical Instruments (New York, 1915), p. 5064.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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: 1977.0808.043
label: accession number
content: 1977.0808
label: catalog number
content: 1977.0808.43
objectType: label: Object Name
content: hooks
label: Other Terms
content: Surgery
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 1/4 in x 1/4 in; 20.955 cm x .635 cm