Bovie Knife
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content: William T. Bovie (1882-1958) was a biophysicist who in 1928, while working at Harvard University, and in connection with Harvey Cushing, a Harvard neurosurgeon, invented the electrosurgical generator (aka Bovie knive); and won the John Scott medal for this work. Early examples were made by the Liebel-Flarsheim Co. in Cincinnati. Our example was made by Valley Lab in Boulder, Co.
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content: Ref: Harvey Cushing and W. T. Bovie, “Electro-surgery as an aid to the removal of intercranial Tumors,” Surg. Gynecol. Obstet. 47 (1928): 751-784.
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content: “William T. Bovie, Biophysicist, Dies,” New York Times (Jan. 2, 1958), p. 27.
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content: Preston L. Carter, "The life and legacy of William T. Bovie," The American Journal of Surgery 205 (2013): 488–491.
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: 2002.0105.04
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content: 2002.0105.04
label: accession number
content: 2002.0105
objectType: label: Object Name
content: electrosurgical apparatus
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 58.4 cm x 50.8 cm x 114.3 cm; 23 in x 20 in x 45 in