Metacarpal Saw
notes: label: Description
content: Metacarpal saw with a "LUTTER / BERLIN" inscription. August Lutter, a surgical instrument maker in Berlin, showed his wares at several international exhibitions in the 1860s. Metacarpal refers to the five bones of the hand.
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: 2012.0165.282
label: catalog number
content: 2012.0165.282
label: accession number
content: 2012.0165
objectType: label: Object Name
content: saw
label: Object Name
content: surgical instrument
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/8 in x 8 3/8 in x 5/8 in; .9525 cm x 21.2725 cm x 1.5875 cm