Coagulation Device
name: label: maker
content: Cameron-Miller Surgical Instruments Co.
notes: label: Description
content: William T. Bovie, a Harvard physicist, created the unipolar electrocautery device, an instrument that revolutionized surgery, in 1926. James Greenwood, chief of the neurosurgical service at The Methodist Hospital in Houston, did pioneering work on bipolar cautery in 1940.
label: Description
content: Inscriptions on this device read “CAMERON” and “BIPOLAR COAGULATION.” William J. Cameron established the Cameron Surgical Specialty Co. in Chicago in 1915. That firm became the Cameron-Miller Surgical Instrument Co. in 1972.
label: Description
content: Ref: Stephen L. Barrett, Joseph M. Vella, and A. Lee Delon, “Historical Development of Bipolar Coagulation,” Microsurgery 30 (Nov. 2010): 667-669.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: ZZ.RSN83541U21
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Coagulation Unit
label: Other Terms
content: Coagulation Unit; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 1/2 in x 13 7/8 in x 9 7/8 in; 29.21 cm x 35.2425 cm x 25.0825 cm