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Artifact Name	Trephine Set
Type of Object	Set, trephining
Date of Manufacture	1850-1860
Time Period	Nineteenth century
Dimensions	5.5 cm. x 23.5 cm. x 16 cm.
Physical Details	Wooden box with a brass plate on the center of top and metal corners and a lock on the front. Lined on the inside with red fabric, fitted for the instruments. The set is missing 3-4 pieces (scalpel, elevator, brush), but does contain the two trephines. The two trephines are identical, "T" shaped with an ebony handle and a brass center shaft. At the end of the shaft is a steel cylinder with saw teeth at the bottom end. A steel point is in the center of the cylinder and can be advanced out or retracted in by a sliding screw on the shaft.
Medical Subject	Trephining -- instrumentation
Accession Number	1986.19
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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