Trephine
date: label: Date made
content: 1861 - 1864
name: label: maker
content: George Tiemann & Company
notes: label: Description
content: Gabriel Alexander Dickie Galt (1830-1908), a physician in Virginia, introduced a new trephine in 1860. Here, the cutting head had the form of a truncated cone with spiral teeth, and it could apparently cut the skull bone without touching the brain. This example of a Galt trephine has a "TIEMANN" inscription.
label: Description
content: Ref: G. A. D. Galt, “A new Trephine; being adapted to the free and rapid penetration of the Cranium, without danger of wounding the Membranes,” New York Journal of Medicine 8 (1860): 426-427.
label: Description
content: George Tiemann & Co., The American Armamentarium Chirurgicum (New York, 1879), p. 12.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Dr. George E. and Leora M. Osler
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1991.0858.01.18
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0858.01.18
label: accession number
content: 1991.0858
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Trephine
label: Object Name
content: trephine
label: Object Name
content: surgical set
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: blue (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 12.1 cm x 2.4 cm; 4 3/4 in x 15/16 in
label: Measurements
content: handle: 3 7/8 in x 7/8 in; x 9.8425 cm x 2.2225 cm
label: Measurements
content: trephine: 1 in x 5 in x 1 in; 2.54 cm x 12.7 cm x 2.54 cm