Surgical Instruments (5)
name: label: maker
content: Madeira, Pugh
notes: label: Description
content: Five surgical instruements, each with an ivory handle and a “MADEIRA” inscription. Pugh Madeira (ca. 1809-1881) was a surgical and dental instrument maker in Philadelphia who claimed that his instruments of American steel were as good as those made from European steel.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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: 2012.0165.304
label: catalog number
content: 2012.0165.304
label: accession number
content: 2012.0165
objectType: label: Object Name
content: surgical instruments
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: steel (blades material)
label: Physical Description
content: ivory (handles material)
label: Measurements
content: overall, largest: 1/4 in x 6 1/4 in x 5/8 in; .635 cm x 15.875 cm x 1.5875 cm