
Large tourniquet for compressionof the aorta
- Made:
- 1801-1900

Large tourniquet for compressionof the aorta, Civiale's type, padded, curved lumbar harness attached to steel rods with garot-type abdominal pressure pad on screw thread, c. 1850
Details
- Category:
- Surgery
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A600705
- Materials:
- lumbar harness, leather, lumbar harness, steel, pad, leather, pad, steel, pad, wood, rods, steel and strap, linen webbing
- type:
- tourniquets surgery (amputation) and civiale, abdominal, surgery (amputation) and tourniquets