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Artifact Name	Bone Cutting Rongeur
Type of Object	Rongeur, bone
Manufacturer	International Silver Co.
Date of Manufacture	1930-1940
Time Period	Twentieth century
Dimensions	1.4 cm. x 22.5 cm. x 12.5 cm.
Physical Details	Handheld stainless steel bone cutting rongeur with a geared clipping mechanism. The instrument consists of two blades, one with a steel brace plate screwed in that attaches to the opposite handle and each with a hand guard. The brace plate connects to a moving mechanism that causes the handles to separate at the joint and bring two hollow, ovaloid blades at the distal end toward one another, cutting the bone. Likely used for smaller segements of bone.
Medical Subject	Osteotomy -- instrumentation
Accession Number	1982.84
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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