Boiffin's Needle Holder
date: label: date made
content: 1920
notes: label: Description
content: Boiffin’s needle holder was presumably named for Alfred Boiffin (1856-1896), a professor of clinical surgery at Nantes. This example has a Kny-Scheerer logo.
label: Description
content: Ref: The Kny-Scheerer Co., Illustrations of Surgical Instruments (New York, 1915), p. 2212.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Surgical instruments
label: Subject
content: Surgery
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of The Kny-Scheerer Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-01187
label: catalog number
content: M-01187
label: accession number
content: 66912
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Roll, Surgical
label: Object Name
content: needle holder
label: Object Name
content: surgical instrument
label: Other Terms
content: Roll, Surgical; Surgery
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: steel (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/4 in x 4 7/8 in; .635 cm x 12.3825 cm