Scalpel
notes: label: Description
content: Scalpel with black wood handle, and an inscription on one blade that reads “STAR SAFETY CORN RAZOR.” This device, designed for removing corns from feet, was made by Kampfe Bros.—the New York City firm that apparently coined the term “safety razor”—and was on the market by 1905. This example belonged to Walter Willard Boyd (1898-1981), a physician whose children donated it to the Museum.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Josephine B. Carpenter and Walter L. Boyd
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2000.0223.06.32
label: accession number
content: 2000.0223
label: catalog number
content: 2000.0223.06.32
objectType: label: Object Name
content: scalpel
label: Object Name
content: surgical set
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/8 in x 5 1/2 in x 5/8 in; .9525 cm x 13.97 cm x 1.5875 cm