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Creation Date
1900
Description
French hollow-handled scalpels, accession no. 15; circa 1900s
Scalpels (bistouries) with hollow handles, made in France and chosen for use by Dr. Alexis Carrel, whose pioneer work in blood-vessel surgery won him a Nobel Prize in 1912 - the firs for medicine to be awarded to a scientists in America and in the history of The Rockefeller University.
Photo by Lubosh Stepanek
Keywords
scalpels, Alexis Carrel