Surgical instrument consisting of short flattened spike set into turned wood handle

Made:: 1870-1920

Surgical instrument consisting of short flattened spike set
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Surgical instrument consisting of short flattened spike set into turned wood handle, used for trephining, Algerian, 1870-1920

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A652516

Materials:: steel, brass and wood

Measurements:: length 143 mm
blade: length 53 mm
handle: diameter 21 mm

type:: trephines

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Surgical instrument consisting of short flattened spike set into turned wood handle

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