Guillotine Knife
date: label: date made
content: ca 1946
name: label: maker
content: George P. Pilling and Son Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This "S" curved knife is used to cut away calcification from the mitral valve a condition known as mitral stenosis. The guillotine knife was developed by Charles P. Bailey, M.D., (1910-1993) and Dr's. Glover and O'Neill in 1946. It is marked "PILLING-PHILA", "R", "10" for use in the right hand.
label: Description (Brief)
content: In an interview published in <i>Heart to Heart: the Twentieth Century Battle Against Heart Disease, An Oral History</i> by Allen B. Weiss, Bailey discusses how he and several colleagues Dwight Harken and Russel Brock (GB) independently developed a technique mitral valve surgery.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
topic: label: Subject
content: Cardiology
label: Subject
content: Medical Procedure- Surgery
label: Subject
content: Medicine
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Charles P. Bailey, M.D.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-11607.01
label: catalog number
content: M-11607.01
label: accession number
content: 267869
label: accession number
content: 267869
objectType: label: Object Name
content: cardiology
label: Object Name
content: knife, mitral-valve
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: steel (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 in x 1 in x 1 1/2 in; 17.78 cm x 2.54 cm x 3.81 cm