Hey's Surgical Saw
name: label: maker
content: Kolbe, D. W.
notes: label: Description
content: William Hey (1736–1819), a surgeon in Leeds, presented this type of saw in his Practical Observations in Surgery (London, 1803), noting that he had used one for cranial operations for twenty years and found it much more useful than the trephine. The form, he noted, “was first shewn to me by Mr. (now Dr.) Cockell, an ingenious practitioner at Pontefract, to whom the public is indebted for the discovery, or revival, of this excellent instrument.”
label: Description
content: Ref: William Hey, Practical Observations in Surgery (London, 1803), pp. 9-10, and plate I.
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: 1985.0581.05
label: catalog number
content: 1985.0581.05
label: accession number
content: 1985.0581
objectType: label: Object Name
content: saw
label: Object Name
content: surgical set
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/8 in x 7 3/4 in x 1 7/8 in; .9525 cm x 19.685 cm x 4.7625 cm