Rachitome
notes: label: Description
content: A rachitome is a dissecting instrument for opening the spinal canal. The form originated with Jean-Zulima Amussat (1796-1856), an eminent surgeon in Paris. It was often referred to as Charriere's double saw.
label: Description
content: Ref: F. Campbell Stewart, The Hospitals and Surgeons of Paris (New York and Philadelphia, 1843), pp. 216-324, on 221.
label: Description
content: George Tiemann & Co., The American Armamentarium Chirugicum (New York, 1879), p. 97.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2006.0011.32
label: catalog number
content: 2006.0011.32
label: accession number
content: 2006.0011
objectType: label: Object Name
content: saw
label: Object Name
content: surgical instrument
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/2 in x 10 1/2 in x 6 in; 6.35 cm x 26.67 cm x 15.24 cm