Trephine Set
| Title: | Trephine Set. |
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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 | |
| Date Created: | 1850-1860 | |
| Extent: | 5.5 cm. x 23.5 cm. x 16 cm. | |
| Physical description: | 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. | |
| Identifier(s): |
Accession Number: 1986.19 (accession number) CONTENTdm ID: mar/id/68 (CONTENTdm ID) |
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| Note(s): |
Type of Object: Set, trephining |
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| Subject(s): |
Time Period: Nineteenth century Trephining -- 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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