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Artifact Name	Bone Trephine
Type of Object	Trephine
Date of Manufacture	1850-1870
Time Period	Nineteenth century
Dimensions	3 cm. x 12 cm. x 10.5 cm.
Physical Details	"T"-shaped hand drill trephine. Straight ebony handle with scrolling errules, decorative rims, and inscribed crisscrossed patterned grips, perforated and run through by an equally ornamental shaft of nickel-plated steel stemming perpendicularly from the midline. A tightened screw cap holds the component pieces together. The tip is outfitted with a wide, drum-like bit that tapers slightly towards the serrated tip. The saw ring encircles a sharp guide bit within. A slide mechanism running along the shaft determines the vertical position of the guide bit.
Medical Subject	Trephining -- instrumentation
Accession Number	2003.3.1
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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