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Collection Item: Trocar
Basic info
- Collection
- Social History
- Object name
- Trocar
- Object category
- Working life
- Object subcategory
- Distribution, hotels, catering, retail and repairs
- Description
- A torcar with a stop-cock. It was used to insert a cannula into the body in order to drain collections of fluids (see Warren page 25).
- Production date start
- 1870
- Production date end
- 1900
Identification
- Object number
- YORCM : AA18
- Number of objects
- 1
- Classification code
- 4.8433
- 1.41
- Classification scheme
- SHIC
- SHIC
- ID
- 45000019
Physical Characteristics
- Materials
- Metal (Whole)
- Wood (Handle)
