Boiffin's Needle Holder
Boiffin's Needle Holder
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- Description
- Boiffin’s needle holder was presumably named for Alfred Boiffin (1856-1896), a professor of clinical surgery at Nantes. This example has a Kny-Scheerer logo.
- Ref: The Kny-Scheerer Co., Illustrations of Surgical Instruments (New York, 1915), p. 2212.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Roll, Surgical
- needle holder
- surgical instrument
- Other Terms
- Roll, Surgical; Surgery
- date made
- 1920
- Physical Description
- steel (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1/4 in x 4 7/8 in;.635 cm x 12.3825 cm
- ID Number
- MG.M-01187
- catalog number
- M-01187
- accession number
- 66912
- Credit Line
- Gift of The Kny-Scheerer Company
- subject
- Surgical instruments
- Surgery
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- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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