Electro-Cautery
notes: label: Description
content: Claude Andre Paquelin (1836-1905) was a French physician who, in 1876, designed an apparatus that enabled a cautery to maintain a high temperature. Inscriptions in the lid of the case of this example read “THERMO-CAUTERE / DU DR. PAQUELIN” and “M. CHARRIERE / COLLIN ET CIE. / A PARIS.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Claude A. Paquelin, “Improvement in Cauterizing Apparatus,” U.S. Patent 187,301 (Feb. 13, 1877).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: ZZ.RSN83538U49
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Kit, Thermocautery
label: Object Name
content: thermocautery kit
label: Object Name
content: electrodes
label: Other Terms
content: Kit, Thermocautery; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/2 in x 8 in x 5 1/2 in; 11.43 cm x 20.32 cm x 13.97 cm