Double-bladed spine saw with inlaid ebony handle

Autopsy--Equipment and supplies

Surgical instruments and apparatus

Autopsy--instrumentation

Surgical Instruments

Surgical/Autopsy

Image 101-1578

Used in post-mortem procedures

Silver saw with ebony handle used to cut sections through the spinal cord. The width of the sections could be varied with the screw and nut mechanism.

Health Sciences Library

State University of New York at Buffalo

1870

David Burns (Firm)

Cravens, Annette

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29 x 6 x2.5 cm.

Surgical Instruments

Image

Still image

99.6.9

LIB-HSL001

Spine saw

9/28/2009

Ebony and silver