Cautery consisting of flat hooked metal blade with wooden handle

Made:: 1870-1920

Cautery consisting of flat hooked metal blade with wooden
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Cautery consisting of flat hooked metal blade with wooden handle, Algerian, 1870-1920

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A652518

Materials:: steel and wood

Measurements:: length 219 mm
blade: length 109 mm
handle: diameter 30 mm

type:: cautery

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Cautery consisting of flat hooked metal blade with wooden handle

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