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    Type of Object

    Snare, tonsil

    Place of Manufacture

    Africa, North

    Date of Manufacture

    1915-1919

    Physical Details

    Tonsil snare with aluminum finger and thumb pieces. Made at La Senia airport, outside Oran, North Africa by a U.S Air Force Sergeant. Finger pieces carved from aluminim propeller of a downed French airplane. Other parts were made from a drill rod, piece of typewriter bar, and bicycle spoke.

    Dimensions (L x W x H)

    1 cm. x 28 cm. x 7 cm.

    Medical Subject

    Tonsillectomy -- instrumentation; Otorhinolaryngologic Surgical Procedures -- instrumentation

    Accession Number

    1983.1

    Genre

    medical equipment

    Local Genre

    medical artifact

    Type

    Still Image

    Digital Format

    image/jpg

    Language

    eng

    Rights

    This material is protected by copyright, and copyright is held by VCU. You are permitted to use this material in any way that is permitted by copyright. In addition, this material is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Acknowledgment of Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is required.

    Collection

    Medical Artifacts Collection

    Source

    Original object: Tonsil Snare, VCU Health Sciences Library Medical Artifacts. Special Collections and Archives, VCU Health Sciences Library, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Va.

    File Name

    mar00001.jpg

    Accessibility Note

    Content is digitally accessible 2010.

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