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Artifact Name	Tongue Depressor
Type of Object	Depressor, tongue
Manufacturer	John Reynders & Co.
Place of Manufacture	New York (N.Y.)
Date of Manufacture	1879-1885
Time Period	Nineteenth century
Dimensions	8.5 cm. x 15 cm. x 3.5 cm.
Physical Details	Nickel-plated metal tongue depressor has ribbed oval blade that extends at proximal end into a curved neck. The neck is attached to a hard rubber handle with nickel-plated metal hooked finger rest.
Medical Subject	Diagnostic Equipment; Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures -- instrumentation
Accession Number	1983.86.18a
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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