Nelaton's Bullet Probe
notes: label: Description
content: In late 1862, Auguste Nelaton (1807-1873), a professor of surgery in Paris, developed a metal probe with a porcelain tip to determine if there was a bullet in Giuseppe Garibaldi’s ankle. This bullet probe is of that sort. An inscription reads “HOLEKAMP-MOORE Co. / ST.LOUIS.”
label: Description
content: Ref: George Tiemann & Co., The American Armamentarium Chirugicum (New York, 1897), p. 40.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Donated by St. Louis Medical Society through Harry O. Cole & Gordon R. Garrett
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1977.0808.053
label: catalog number
content: 1977.0808.053
label: accession number
content: 1977.0808
objectType: label: Object Name
content: surgical instrument
label: Object Name
content: Probe, Bullet
label: Object Name
content: bullet probe
label: Other Terms
content: Probe, Bullet; Exploring Instruments; Bullet
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: porcelain (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 10 in x 3/16 in; 25.4 cm x .39878 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 in x 1/8 in; x 25.4 cm x .3175 cm