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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
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
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Rights
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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