General
General
Object Auto ID
87775
Alternate Codes
Equipment and Tools
Common Name
Tonsil compressor c. 1930
Classified Name
MEDICAL & PSYCHOLOGICAL T&E
Quantity
1.00
Object Description

Instrument designed to hold engorged tonsils during tonsillectomy. Tool is made of silver finished brass with turned circular ribbed ebony wood pad and larger gutta-percha hard rubber pad, c. 1930.

Provenance

Cape Medical Museum

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History
Object Age Comment
c. 1930
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