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Object Name |
Tonsil Guillotine |
Object ID |
2004.231.01.01 |
Date |
Post 1850 |
Description |
Grey metal tonsil guillotine with two loop handles on the sides and one on the end; flat blade and two-pronged fork on the front end. A fenestration on the front end matches the flat blade, which can be passed over the hole. |
Materials |
Metal |
Provenance |
In the early 1920s, the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada, began accepting medical artifacts for a historical museum. It remained an unofficial collection until it was turned into the Medical Museum and Archives at University Hospital in the 1970s. In the 1990s, many of these artifacts were spread out among various local institutions, and the remaining objects were reorganized into the Medical Artifact Collection at the University of Western Ontario, catalogued and organized by Michelle Hamilton. |
MeSH Search Terms |
Surgical Procedures, Operative Otorhinolaryngologic Surgical Procedures / Instrumentation Tonsillectomy / Instrumentation |
Related Publications |
P2004-231 |