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Artifact Name	Folding Pocket General Surgical Set
Type of Object	Set, general surgery
Manufacturer	George Tiemann Co.
Place of Manufacture	New York (N.Y.)
Date of Manufacture	1870-1880
Time Period	Nineteenth century
Dimensions	3.2 cm. x 15.4 cm. x 7 cm.
Physical Details	Surgical Pocket Set, including 14 instruments for general surgery. The case is black calfskin leather with a latch closure, divided into four separate compartments, and is lined with red velvet and satin with insewn pockets for holding the instruments in place. The included instruments are a tenaculum, forceps, probe, scalpels, all composed of nickel plated steel and with the folding instruments having tortoise shell handles with retractable blades. A total of 14 instruments are included in this set, out of 20 slots provided for instruments. There is a decorative gold leaf embossing on the outer cover. Set does not appear to be strictly organic.
Medical Subject	Surgical Instruments
Accession Number	1998.10.1
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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