Tourniquet
date: label: date made
content: 1871-1874
name: label: maker
content: Ford, William F.
notes: label: Description
content: Petit’s spiral tourniquet was devised by and named for the French surgeon, Jean Louis Petit (1674-1750). The form was widely used during the American Civil War.
label: Description
content: Ref: Alan J. Hawk, “Artifacts: Jean Louis Petit’s Screw Tourniquet,” Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research 474 (2016): 2577-2579.
label: Description
content: George Tiemann & Co., The American Armamentarium Chirugicum (New York, 1879), p. 32.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Transfer from U.S. Department of Health, Education & Welfare. Public Health Service
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1980.0349.09.041
label: catalog number
content: 1980.0349.09.041
label: accession number
content: 1980.0349
objectType: label: Object Name
content: torniquet
label: Object Name
content: surgical set
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 3/4 in x 4 in x 2 in; 4.445 cm x 10.16 cm x 5.08 cm