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    Type of Object

    Cane

    Place of Manufacture

    Brest (France)

    Date of Manufacture

    1918

    Physical Details

    Wooden cane with the names of 18 patients carved into it. Cane is made from a stripped tree branch, and has names carved in from the top down in a spiral fashion. The top is inscribed: "12-4-18 B.H. NO. 65 WARD X 2." The names are those of Dr. Wine's patients at Base Hospital 65 who recovered from meningitis.

    Dimensions (L x W x H)

    2 cm. x 90 cm. x 1.5 cm.

    Medical Subject

    Orthopedic equipment

    Accession Number

    1989.1.2

    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: Carved Wooden Cane, VCU Health Sciences Library Medical Artifacts. Special Collections and Archives, VCU Health Sciences Library, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Va.

    File Name

    mar00169.jpg

    Accessibility Note

    Content is digitally accessible 2010.

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