Electrocoagulator Tips (4)
notes: label: Description
content: Four electrocoagulator tips 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
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2000.0223.05.04
label: accession number
content: 2000.0223
label: catalog number
content: 2000.0223.05.04
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Set of tips
label: Object Name
content: electrocoagulator tips, set
label: Object Name
content: surgical instrument
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: tip 1: 2 1/8 in x 3/8 in; 5.3975 cm x .9525 cm
label: Measurements
content: tip 2: 2 3/16 in x 5/8 in x 3/8 in; 5.55625 cm x 1.5875 cm x .9525 cm
label: Measurements
content: tip 3: 1 3/4 in x 7/8 in x 3/8 in; 4.445 cm x 2.2225 cm x .9525 cm
label: Measurements
content: tip 4: 1 1/4 in x 11/16 in x 3/8 in; 3.175 cm x 1.74625 cm x .9525 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall housing: 1 3/4 in x 3 3/8 in x 2 3/4 in; 4.445 cm x 8.5725 cm x 6.985 cm