Hey's Surgical Saw
name: label: maker
content: George Tiemann & Company
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.” This example has a “Tiemann” inscription on the shaft.
label: Description
content: Ref: William Hey, Practical Observations in Surgery (London, 1803).
label: Description
content: George Tiemann & Co., The American Armamentarium Chirugicum (New York, 1879), p. 57.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
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: MG.314016.207
label: accession number
content: 314016
label: catalog number
content: 314016.207
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Saw
label: Object Name
content: surgical instrument
label: Object Name
content: saw
label: Other Terms
content: Saw; Cutting Tools; Skull
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: black (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (blade material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood, ebony (handle material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 1 cm x 5 cm x 16.5 cm; 3/8 in x 1 15/16 in x 6 1/2 in
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