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Artifact Name	Amputation and Surgical Set
Type of Object	Set, amputation
Manufacturer	C. W. Snow; Shepard & Dudley; Collin
Place of Manufacture	Syracuse (N.Y.)
Date of Manufacture	1840-1860
Time Period	Nineteenth century
Dimensions	10.5 cm. x 41 cm. x 16.5 cm.
Physical Details	Amputation and surgical set with purple velvet lining and an exterior case with handle. Case contains 15 (fifteen) items: A bone trephine and its component detachable ebony handle, which attaches with a screw mechanism; two tenacula; a probe-pointed bistoury; amputation knives in three sizes; a Satterlee's capital saw; a Wood's circular knife; a tirefond; a tweezers; a trepanning elevator and rasp; and a tenotome.
Medical Subject	Amputation -- instrumentation
Accession Number	1986.2
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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