Liston Knife
date: label: date made
content: 1861
name: label: maker
content: George Tiemann and Company
notes: label: Description
content: Robert Liston (1794-1847) was a Scottish surgeon noted for his skill and speed in an era before anesthetics, when speed was especially important. A typical Liston knife had a long thin blade. This example has an ebony handle.
label: Description
content: Ref: Robert Liston, Practical Surgery (London, 1837).
label: Description
content: George Tiemann & Co., The American Armamentarium Chirugicum (New York, 1879), p. 4.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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: 1991.0858.01.03
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0858.01.03
label: accession number
content: 1991.0858
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Knife
label: Object Name
content: knife
label: Object Name
content: surgical set
label: Other Terms
content: Knife; Cutting Tools; Amputation Knife
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood, ebony (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: black (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 2.3 cm x 1.3 cm x 38.4 cm; 7/8 in x 1/2 in x 15 1/8 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 in x 15 1/8 in x 1/2 in; 2.54 cm x 38.4175 cm x 1.27 cm