Trocar and Cannula
date: label: Date made
content: 1861 - 1864
name: label: maker
content: George Tiemann & Company
notes: label: Description
content: A trocar is used to withdraw fluid from a body cavity. This example is steel with an ebony handle, and a tubular silver canula that fits over trocar. It resembles the Buck rectal trocar offered by Tiemann & Co. in New York.
label: Description
content: Ref: George Tiemann & Co., The American Armamentarium Chirugicum (New York, 1879), p. 30.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Dr. George E. and Leora M. Osler
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1991.0858.01.17
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0858.01.17
label: accession number
content: 1991.0858
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Trocar and Canula
label: Object Name
content: trocar and canula
label: Object Name
content: surgical set
label: Other Terms
content: Trocar and Canula; Cutting Tools; Rectum
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood, ebony (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, silver (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: black (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 3.5 cm x 20 cm x 2.2 cm; 1 3/8 in x 7 7/8 in x 7/8 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5/8 in x 8 in x 4 in; 1.5875 cm x 20.32 cm x 10.16 cm