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Artifact Name	Stainless Steel Retractor
Type of Object	Retractor, general operating
Manufacturer	Koch & Co.
Place of Manufacture	Germany
Date of Manufacture	1940-1980
Time Period	Twentieth century
Dimensions	0.9 cm. x 14.8 cm. x 1.7 cm.
Physical Details	Stainless steel general operating retractor with a hook and balancer. Apparatus is forged from a single piece of stainless steel, with two ends equidistant from the center of a curved handle with an indentation for a grip. One end has three inward-curved prongs with sharp points, to be placed at the edge of the wound, and the other is a flat balancing counterweight which intersects the handle at a 90 degree angle.
Medical Subject	Surgical Instruments
Accession Number	2005.6.5
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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