Gigli Surgical Saw
date: label: Date made
content: 1862-1865
name: label: maker
content: Hermann Hernstein & Son
notes: label: Description
content: Leonardo Gigli (1863-1908), an Italian surgeon, developed this type of surgical chain saw in the late nineteenth century.
label: Description
content: Ref: W. W. Keen, “On the Use of the Gigli Wire Saw to Obtain Access to the Brain,” The Philadelphia Medical Journal (Jan. 1, 1889): 323-333.
label: Description
content: Dan Aurel Nica, et. al., “Leonardo Gigli and the Gigli Saw—Gigli Redividus,” World Neurosurgery 135 (March 2020): 35-37.
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
label: Exhibition
content: On the Water
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gustave and Phyllis Sokol
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1977.1103.04
label: accession number
content: 1977.1103
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Gigli Saw (with 2 handles and chain)