Item Details
Gigli's Chain Saw
Charriere
- Format
- Online; Physical Object
- Type
- Metal
- Summary
- Chain saw used for cutting through bone where its location would render it inaccessible to a blade saw; principally used for resection operations. "Charriere" is inscribed on one of the handles. Belonged to Dr. Elie C. Chastang, a 19th century French Navy Doctor; part of a collection of French naval instruments.
- Date Created
- 1865; circa 1865
- Description
- 1 x 41 x 5.5 cm
- Collection
- University of Virginia Medical Artifacts Collection
- Location
- Historical Collections & Services, Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, Charlottesville, Va.
- Retrieval ID
- artifacts01209
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