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Type of Object
Hook
Date of Manufacture
1920-1930
Physical Details
Double-ended, stainless steel placenta hook. Instrument has a single shaft with two fenestrated hooks, one on either end, and has a slight curve in the middle.
Dimensions
0.4 cm. x 1.6 cm. x 24.3 cm.
Medical Subject
Delivery, Obstetric -- instrumentation
Accession Number
1989.6.6
Genre
medical equipment
Local Genre
medical artifact
Type
Still Image
Digital Format
image/jpg
Language
eng
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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: Placenta Hook, VCU Health Sciences Library Medical Artifacts. Special Collections and Archives, VCU Health Sciences Library, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Va.
File Name
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