Surgical Set
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This surgical instrument is marked <i>Tiencken</i> which refers to Julius Tiencken a New York City surgical instrument maker who was active from 1863 to 1872. The case is made of Rosewood with brass trim. It has three molded instrument compartments lined in red velvet. The set includes four saws, including a Capital saw, Metacarpal, Hey's and chain saw, an amputation scalpel, a scalpel and raspatory, bone forceps, trephine with out a handle, trocar with cannula, a raspatory and chisel, an artery forceps. Two Liston and one Catlin amputation knives. Six small knives, two needles with handles and a hook. Two graduated sounds and a probe, three uterine curettes, and a trephination brush.
label: Description (Brief)
content: The Surgical set belonged to the donor's grandfather Horace Perkins MacKechnie, M.D. (1841-1919).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Surgical instruments
label: Subject
content: Surgery
label: related event
content: Civil War
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Civil War Surgical Sets
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Horace K. MacKechnie
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-12168 [dup1]
label: catalog number
content: M-12168
label: accession number
content: 271985
objectType: label: Object Name
content: surgical set
label: Object Name
content: amputation set
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rosewood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ebony (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 in x 16 in x 7 in; 10.16 cm x 40.64 cm x 17.78 cm