Trocar

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OBJECT TYPE: Surgical/ post mortem
DATE: 1920–1929
ARTIFACT NUMBER: 2002.0471.001

MANUFACTURER: Unknown
MODEL: 1281
LOCATION: Unknown

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General Information

Serial #: N/A
Part Number: 1
Total Parts: 1
AKA: N/A
Patents: N/A
General Description: chrome plated steel.

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length: 34.2 cm
Width: 1.7 cm
Height: 4.0 cm
Thickness: N/A
Weight: N/A
Diameter: N/A
Volume: N/A

Lexicon

Group: Medical Technology
Category: Instruments
Sub-Category: N/A

Manufacturer

AKA: Unknown
Country: Unknown
State/Province: Unknown
City: Unknown

Context

Country: Africa
State/Province: Unknown
Period: Used in 1920s; possibly also used later.
Canada: Designed and used by Dr. Oscar Klotz to take liver samples from persons who had died from Yellow Fever in Africa. Dr. Klotz, Professor of Pathology, University of Toronto, was employed temporarily by the Rockefeller Foundation to study Yellow Fever. In 1926 he was able to disprove Noguche's theory that yellow Fever was due to a Leptospira [organism]. In 1927 he was instrumental in the discovery that the disease was reproducible in Macacus Rhesus and Simicus [monkeys], that it was due to a virus and that [at least from species of] mosquitos could transmit the infection. Dr. Klotz gave the trocar to Dr. William Boyd who later gave it to donor Dr. H.J. Barrie. Dr. Barrie used this trocar for taking soil samples.(Ref. 3)
Function: Instrument designed to take post mortem liver samples.
Technical: Instrument can be introduced into liver, used to sever a small sample, and then be withdrawn with sample securely housed within, protected from contaminants.
Area Notes: Unknown

Details

Markings: "1231" stamped into both sliding and stationary finger grip fittings on instrument. "982.17a" and "982.17b" printed by hand in black ink on instrument.
Missing: End broken off sliding cover for specimen receptacle.
Finish: Chrome plated steel.
Decoration: N/A

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Unknown Manufacturer, Trocar, circa 1920–1929, Artifact no. 2002.0471, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/2002.0471.001/

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