Surgical Instruments used at Lincoln's Autopsy, 1865
date: label: date made
content: by 1865
name: label: Associated Name
content: Lincoln, Abraham
notes: label: Description
content: On April 15, Surgeon General Joseph K. Barnes directed an autopsy on Lincoln’s body in the White House. The name of the surgeon who performed the autopsy was not recorded. The instruments he used were given to Alfred D. Wilson, a young doctor who assisted in the procedure. They remained in Wilson’s family until they were donated to the Medical Society of the County of Kings in Brooklyn, New York, in 1935.
label: Description
content: Gift of the Medical Society of the County of Kings, 1983
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Medicine
label: general subject association
content: National Symbols
setName: label: See more items in
content: Political History: Political History, General History Collection
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content: Government, Politics, and Reform
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content: Selections from the Abraham Lincoln Collection
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Rubenstein, Harry R.. Abraham Lincoln: An Extraordinary Life
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of the Medical Society of the County of Kings
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: COLL.MEDKIT.005002
label: accession number
content: 1983.0051
objectType: label: Object Name
content: medical kit
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall with lid open: 6 3/4 in x 10 1/4 in x 7 1/2 in; 17.145 cm x 26.035 cm x 19.05 cm