Electrocoagulator Rod
notes: label: Description
content: Electrocoagulator rod used by Harvey Williams Cushing (1869-1939), American neurosurgeon, pathologist, and pioneer of brain surgery. Cushing did not invent electrocoagulation, but his use and publicity in the 1920s did much to promote the technique.
label: Description
content: Ref: Harvey Cushing, “Electrosurgery as an Aid to the Removal of Intracranial Tumors,” Surg. Gynec. Obstet. (1928).
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: 2000.0223.05.02
label: accession number
content: 2000.0223
label: catalog number
content: 2000.0223.05.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Rod
label: Object Name
content: electrocoagulator rod
label: Object Name
content: surgical instrument
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 22 cm x 1 cm; 8 11/16 in x 3/8 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 7/8 in x 3/8 in; x 22.5425 cm x .9525 cm