Hey's Surgical Saw
date: label: date made
content: 1871-1874
name: label: maker
content: Ford, William F.
notes: label: Description
content: William Hey (1736–1819), a surgeon in Leeds, presented this type of saw in his Practical Observations in Surgery (London, 1803), noting that he had used one for cranial operations for twenty years and found it much more useful than the trephine. The form, he noted, “was first shewn to me by Mr. (now Dr.) Cockell, an ingenious practitioner at Pontefract, to whom the public is indebted for the discovery, or revival, of this excellent instrument.”
label: Description
content: This example has an ivory handle. The "W. F. FORD N.Y." inscription is that of William Fraser Ford (1820-1897), a machinist from England who arrived in New York in 1848, and learned about surgical instruments by working with William F. Goulding and then with George Wade. The firm became Wade & Ford in 1861, and William F. Ford & Co. after the Civil War.
label: Description
content: Ref: William Hey, Practical Observations in Surgery (London, 1803), pp. 9-10, and plate I.
label: Description
content: Ford obituary in New York Times (Nov. 4, 1897), p. 7.
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: 1980.0349.09.068
label: accession number
content: 1980.0349
label: catalog number
content: 1980.0349.09.068
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Saw
label: Object Name
content: saw
label: Object Name
content: surgical set
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/8 in x 6 1/2 in x 1 7/8 in; .9525 cm x 16.51 cm x 4.7625 cm