Ballenger Swivel Knife
notes: label: Description
content: Steel instrument from the Division of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, Georgetown University Medical Center. Inscriptions on the package identify this as a Ballenger Swivel Knife, 4 MM, Cat. No. P-4304, from Padgett Instruments in Kansas City, Mo. The form was used for cutting and removing cartilage, primarily in nasal procedures. William Lincoln Ballenger (1861-1915) was a professor of otology, rhinology and laryngology at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, University of Illinois, in Chicago. Padgett Instruments was established in 1937 and acquired by Integra Life Sciences in 2002.
label: Description
content: Ref: Ballenger “Obituary,” in Journal of Laryngology (Jan. 1918): 32.
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: 1986.0418.05
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0418.05
label: accession number
content: 1986.0418
objectType: label: Object Name
content: knife
label: Object Name
content: surgical instrument
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 in x 8 in x 3/8 in; 7.62 cm x 20.32 cm x .9525 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/8 in x 8 in x 3 in; .9525 cm x 20.32 cm x 7.62 cm