Tonsil Guillotine

Collection

David Usborne Collection

Code

DU_269

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License

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When this instrument is placed over the tonsil and the handle pushed forward the tonsil is first impaled on the tines of a sliding fork which lifts it so that it can be neatly severed by the curved blade which follows.

David Usborne Chrome Health and medicine 20th Century Steel