Authors

KNY Scheerer

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Type of Object

Adenotome

Place of Manufacture

Germany

Date of Manufacture

1959

Physical Details

Stainless steel adenotome with finger grips and screw-in adjusting plate. Instrument is composed of several constituent pieces. The grip body moves on the handle and pushes forward to a cavity with two slots in the head at the distal end. Engraved lightly "St. P. O. R. 5-60" on the rear of the handle, for St. Philip Operating Room. Lacks cutting plate.

Dimensions

2 cm. x 23.5 cm. x 6 cm.

Medical Subject

Tonsillectomy -- instrumentation

Accession Number

1982.126b

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

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