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Actions	Tonsil Guillotine Remove from selection Add to selection Object number@LXH TitleTonsil Guillotine DescriptionSteel instrument used for conducting tonsillectomies (an operation for patients that have reocurring throat infections). Made of steel and with the letters D.R.G.M. are inscribed on the device. The device would slice off the infected tonsils by pulling the finger lever, in the same way the guillotine works. This technique was inveted in 1866 by Robert and Collin, students of the famous instrument maker Joseph-Frederic Charriere. By the twentieth century doctors had replaced the tonsil guillotine with forcepts and scapels due to the hight numbers of patients who still had sore throats, along with hemorrhaging and bits of the tonsil still found in the mouth. Production periodNineteenth century, late Object nameTonsil guillotine Object categoryINSTRUMENT MaterialSteel Dimensions Length: 27.5 cm Width: 9.0 cm

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TitleTonsil Guillotine

DescriptionSteel instrument used for conducting tonsillectomies (an operation for patients that have reocurring throat infections). Made of steel and with the letters D.R.G.M. are inscribed on the device. The device would slice off the infected tonsils by pulling the finger lever, in the same way the guillotine works. This technique was inveted in 1866 by Robert and Collin, students of the famous instrument maker Joseph-Frederic Charriere. By the twentieth century doctors had replaced the tonsil guillotine with forcepts and scapels due to the hight numbers of patients who still had sore throats, along with hemorrhaging and bits of the tonsil still found in the mouth.

Production periodNineteenth century, late

Object nameTonsil guillotine

Object categoryINSTRUMENT

MaterialSteel

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