Electric Cautery
name: label: maker
content: F. Geiger
notes: label: Description
content: The “F. GEIGER” inscription on the handle of this electrocautery is that of the Geiger Instrument Company, a firm that was founded by Fred Boyce Geiger (1890-1925) in Council Bluffs, Iowa, in 1913, and that specialized in thermal cautery apparatus. It now trades as Geiger Medical Technologies.
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: ZZ.RSN83538U46
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Cautery, Electric
label: Other Terms
content: Cautery, Electric; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 16 cm x 3.5 cm; 6 5/16 in x 1 3/8 in