Tonsilotome
notes: label: Description
content: Simple and perhaps incomplete example of an early tonsillotome with an ivory handle, that 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. An inscription may read “G. TIEMANN & SONS / NEW YORK.”
label: Description
content: Ref: George Tiemann & Sons, American Armamentarium Chirugicum (New York, 1879), p. 65.
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: 2017.0184.002.19
label: catalog number
content: 2017.0184.002.19
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: 1.5 cm x 2.8 cm x 25.5 cm; 19/32 in x 1 3/32 in x 10 1/32 in