Trocar, steel, with brass cannula and inlaid wooden handle

Made:: 1601-1650 in Europe

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Trocar, steel, with brass cannula and inlaid wooden handle
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Trocar, steel, with brass cannula and inlaid wooden handle, European,1601-1650

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Category:: Surgery

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A121496

Materials:: steel (metal), brass (copper, zinc alloy), wood (unidentified) and mother-of-pearl

Measurements:: overall (handle-diameter): 32 mm,
overall (cannula shaft): 4 mm x 8 mm

type:: trocar

credit:: Hamonic Collection

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