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Artifact Name	Amputation Set
Type of Object	Set, amputation
Manufacturer	H.G. Kern; Julius Tiencken
Place of Manufacture	Philadelphia (Pa.)
Date of Manufacture	1860-1875
Time Period	Nineteenth century
Dimensions	6.5 cm. x 45 cm. x 27 cm.
Physical Details	Mahogany veneer case with brass corners straps and lock; recessed brass plate (unengraved) on top of case; interior of case is lined in purple velvet (faded). Case has two hook and eye latches; left hook is broken off. Set contains ten items including: 36 cm long capital bone saw with checkered ebony handle marked H.G. Kern; 41 cm long Liston long amputation knife with checkered ebony handle marked H.G. Kern; 31.5 long circular amputation knife with checkered ebony handle marked H.G. Kern; bistoury with ebony handle marked Tiencken; tenaculum with checkered ebony handle; 22 cm long metacarpal bone saw with checkered ebony handle; bow saw with checkered ebony handle; and artery forceps; straight bone forceps marked Kern; and Petit?s spiral tourniquet. One knife is missing.
Medical Subject	Amputation -- instrumentation; Surgical Instruments
Accession Number	1986.102
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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