Tonsillotome
date: label: date made
content: about 1925
label: date made
content: about 1921
name: label: maker
content: Kny-Scheerer
notes: label: Description
content: The Matthieu tonsillotome was devised by Louis-Joseph Mathieu (1817-1879), a surgical instrument maker in Paris. The Kny-Scheerer inscription on this example refers to a New York firm that began in business in 1897, and that sold surgical instruments made in Germany.
label: Description
content: Ref: The Kny-Scheerer Co., Illustrations of Surgical Instruments (New York, 1915), p. 3222.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Donated by St. Louis Medical Society through Harry O. Cole & Gordon R. Garrett
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1977.0808.020
label: accession number
content: 1977.0808
label: catalog number
content: 1977.0808.020
objectType: label: Object Name
content: tonsilotome
label: Object Name
content: tonsillotome
label: Other Terms
content: Surgery
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 3/16 in x 2 1/4 in x 9 3/8 in; 3.01625 cm x 5.715 cm x 23.8125 cm