Evan's Root Drier
| Title: | Evan's Root Drier. |
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| Name(s): |
Virginia Commonwealth University. Health Sciences Library. Special Collections & Archives, contributor VCU Libraries, publisher |
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| Type of Resource: | still image | |
| Genre: | Medical artifact | |
| Extent: | 1 cm. x 23.5 cm. x 2 cm. | |
| Physical description: | Root drying cautery in three pieces. Distal end is a narrowing, needle-like cautery made of a very malleable material, possibly platinum. Needle attaches to an elongated sphere which serves as a heat reservoir, with space for the handle to screw in. | |
| Identifier(s): |
Accession Number: 1984.15.1 (accession number) CONTENTdm ID: mar/id/21 (CONTENTdm ID) |
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| Note(s): |
Type of Object: Cautery |
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| Subject(s): |
Time Period: Nineteenth century Cautery -- instrumentation; Root Canal Therapy -- instrumentation |
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| LC Classification: | R856.A5 | |
| Rights Statement URL: | https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-NC/1.0/ | |
| Rights Statement: | In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted | |
| Rights: | This material is protected by copyright, and copyright is held by VCU. You are permitted to use this material in any way that is permitted by copyright. In addition, this material is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/). Acknowledgment of Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is required. | |
| Is Part Of: | Collection: Medical Artifacts Collection. | |
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