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Tonillotome for performing tonsillectomies. Steel rod with a ring at the end. Pulling back on the handle draws a guillotine-style blade across the ring to excise the tonsil. A skewer can also be extended across the ring to hold the tonsil in place during the procedure and extract it with the instrument. Charles Truax and Company was founded in Chicago in 1887 as a partnership between Charles Truax, Frank C. Greene, and Charles W. Bassett. Sometime after 1893 the name was changed to Truax, Greene & Company, and the business was dissolved in 1920.
Creator: Chas. Truax & Co.
Date: between 1887 and 1920
Item Number: 318741
KSHS Identifier: 1932.10.5
Business and Industry - Health care - Medical suppliers
Business and Industry - Health care - Surgery
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Medical doctors
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Surgeons
Collections - Museum - Main gallery - Public Health
Date - 1900s
Objects and Artifacts - Tools & Equipment for Science & Technology - Medical & Psychological - Tonsillotome
Places - Other States - Illinois - Chicago
Type of Material - Objects and Artifacts
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