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Artifact Name	Carved Wooden Cane
Type of Object	Cane
Place of Manufacture	Brest (France)
Date of Manufacture	1918
Time Period	Twentieth century
Dimensions	2 cm. x 90 cm. x 1.5 cm.
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.
Medical Subject	Orthopedic equipment
Accession Number	1989.1.2
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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