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Artifact Name	Tonsil Snare
Type of Object	Snare, tonsil
Place of Manufacture	Africa, North
Date of Manufacture	1915-1919
Time Period	Twentieth century
Dimensions	1 cm. x 28 cm. x 7 cm.
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.
Medical Subject	Tonsillectomy -- instrumentation; Otorhinolaryngologic Surgical Procedures -- instrumentation
Accession Number	1983.1
Type	Stillimage
Format	image/jp2
Rights Management	© VCU. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 Acknowledgement of the Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is required.
Collection	Medical Artifacts Collection
Contributor	Tompkins-McCaw Library. Special Collections & Archives
Digital Publisher	VCU Libraries
Local genre	medical artifact

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