Tracheotomy Set
notes: label: Description
content: Wooden instrument case covered in a leather-like material, with brass clasps and hinges. The interior is lined with chamois. Contents include three silver tracheotomy tubes (each marked with a number according to size, 1, 2 and 5), and a double-ended retractor marked "Mathieu / Paris." Louis-Joseph Mathieu apprenticed with master instrument maker Joseph-Frédéric-Benoît Charrière of Paris and was showing his own instruments by 1851. The lower compartment includes a throat forceps marked "Robert et Collin," a non-metallic catheter, a brush, and two instruments with sponges at their tips.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France: Île-de-France, Paris
topic: label: Subject
content: Surgical instruments
label: Subject
content: Surgery
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.302606.165
label: accession number
content: 302606
label: catalog number
content: 302606.165
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Surgical Set
label: Object Name
content: surgical set
label: Object Name
content: tracheotomy set
label: Object Name
content: pocket case
label: Other Terms
content: Surgical Set; Surgical Set; Minor Surgery
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: leather (case material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (case material)
label: Physical Description
content: fabric, chamois (case material)
label: Physical Description
content: silver (instruments material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (instrument material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (case material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5.3 cm x 24.5 cm x 10.2 cm; 2 1/16 in x 9 5/8 in x 4 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 3/4 in x 9 5/8 in x 4 1/4 in; 6.985 cm x 24.4475 cm x 10.795 cm