Trephine
name: label: maker
content: F. A. Hardy & Co.
notes: label: Description
content: The inscription on the lid of the case of this surgical instrument reads “GRADLE SCLERAL TREPHINE.” That on the inside reads “MADE BY / F. A. HARDY & CO. / Chicago New York.” Harry S. Gradle (1883-1950), a Chicago ophthalmologist, introduced the form in 1913.
label: Description
content: Ref: Harry S. Gradle, “New Scleral Trephine,” Journal of the American Medical Association 60 (1913): 2045.
label: Description
content: Robert Henry Elliot, Sclero-Corneal Trephining in the Operative Treatment of Glaucoma (New York, 1914).
label: Description
content: “Dr. Harry Gradle, An Eye Surgeon, 66,” New York Times (May 27, 1950), p. 11.
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: 1987.0401.01
label: catalog number
content: 1987.0401.01
label: accession number
content: 1987.0401
objectType: label: Object Name
content: trephine set
label: Object Name
content: surgical instrument set
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 in x 3 1/8 in x 2 3/8 in; 2.54 cm x 7.9375 cm x 6.0325 cm