Desmarres Knife
Desmarres Knife
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- Description
- Desmarres knife for ophthalmic surgery, with an ivory handle and a "Kolbe" inscription. Louis-Auguste Desmarres (1810–1882) was a French ophthalmologist and author of Traité théorique et pratique des maladies des yeux (1847).
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- knife, eye
- knife, cornea
- knife, ophthalmic
- surgical instrument
- Other Terms
- Surgery
- Physical Description
- ivory (handle material)
- steel (blade material)
- Measurements
- overall: 5 1/2 in x 1/4 in x 3/16 in; 13.97 cm x.635 cm x.47625 cm
- overall: 1/4 in x 5 3/8 in x 1/4 in;.635 cm x 13.6525 cm x.635 cm
- ID Number
- MG.314016.220P
- catalog number
- 314016.220P
- accession number
- 314016
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- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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