Surgical Saw
notes: label: Description
content: Surgical saw with a steel blade, ebony handle, and "TIEMANN / N. YORK" inscription. This form was often termed a “Satterlee Saw” or “Satterlee’s Saw”. The name may refer to Richard Satterlee (1798-1880), a surgeon who commanded the Union Army Medical Purveyor’s Office in New York City during the Civil War.
label: Description
content: Ref: Codman and Shurtleff, Illustrated Catalogue of Surgical Instruments (Boston, 1875), p. 26.
label: Description
content: George Tiemann & Co., The American Armamentarium Chirugicum (New York, 1879), p. 2.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Frances M. Cosine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-02218
label: accession number
content: 95819
label: catalog number
content: M-02218
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Saw
label: Object Name
content: saw
label: Object Name
content: surgical set
label: Object Name
content: amputation set
label: Other Terms
content: Saw; Cutting Tool; Amputatiom
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood, ebony (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5/8 in x 16 1/4 in x 4 in; 1.5875 cm x 41.275 cm x 10.16 cm