Fahnestock-type tonsillotome that belonged to William Hallock Park (1863-1939), a physician who directed the Pathology, Bacteriology, and Disinfection Laboratory of the New York City Board of Health for many years.
Simple and perhaps incomplete example of an early tonsillotome with an ivory handle, that belonged to William Hallock Park (1863-1939), a physician who directed the Pathology, Bacteriology, and Disinfection Laboratory of the New York City Board of Health for many years. An inscription may read “G. TIEMANN & SONS / NEW YORK.”
Ref: George Tiemann & Sons, American Armamentarium Chirugicum (New York, 1879), p. 65.
Morell Mackenzie (1837-1892), an eminent British physician who specialized in diseases of the throat, modified the Physick tonsillotome, largely by adding a stout handle that could be placed on either side. This Mackenzie tonsillotome belonged to William Hallock Park (1863-1939), a physician who directed the Pathology, Bacteriology, and Disinfection Laboratory of the New York City Board of Health for many years.
Ref: Morell Mackenzie, Diseases of the Throat and Nose (Philadelphia, 1880), vol. 1, pp. 26-30.