Surgical instrument consisting of short metal spike fixed into wooden handle

Made:: 1870-1920

Surgical instrument consisting of short metal spike fixed into
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Surgical instrument consisting of short metal spike fixed into wooden handle, Algerian, 1870-1920

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A652523

Materials:: steel, wood and collar, brass

Measurements:: length 117 mm
spike: length 25 mm
max. handle: width 27 mm

type:: surgical instrument

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Surgical instrument consisting of short metal spike fixed into wooden handle

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