Surgical Chain Saw
date: label: date made
content: 1871-1874
name: label: maker
content: Ford, William F.
notes: label: Description
content: Leonardo Gigli (1863-1908), an Italian surgeon, developed this type of surgical chain saw in the late nineteenth century.
label: Description
content: Ref: W. W. Keen, “On the Use of the Gigli Wire Saw to Obtain Access to the Brain,” The Philadelphia Medical Journal (Jan. 1, 1889): 323-33.
label: Description
content: Dan Aurel Nica, et. al., “Leonardo Gigli and the Gigli Saw—Gigli Redividus,” World Neurosurgery 135 (March 2020): 35-37.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Transfer from U.S. Department of Health, Education & Welfare. Public Health Service
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1980.0349.09.038
label: catalog number
content: 1980.0349.09.038
label: accession number
content: 1980.0349
label: catalog number
content: 1980.0349.09.038.01
label: catalog number
content: 1980.0349.09.038.02
label: catalog number
content: 1980.0349.09.038.03
label: catalog number
content: 1980.0349.09.038.04
objectType: label: Object Name
content: chain saw
label: Object Name
content: surgical set
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: blade, stretched, each: 1/8 in x 13 in x 1/8 in; .3175 cm x 33.02 cm x .3175 cm
label: Measurements
content: handle, each: 1/2 in x 2 3/8 in x 2 in; 1.27 cm x 6.0325 cm x 5.08 cm