Surgery

Scalpel, surgical (1)

Englisches Skalpell, um 1900 ?

This scalpel with the obstruse handle "Manual Tool Cie Sheffield" I bought 1998 at a flea market in Canada - maybe a visitor of these pages can tell me something about the form and function of the handle ...

An identical object was offered in 2005 by "jayart3" as a scalpel of the company WRAGGS on the English EBay market: "A 19th Century surgeon's scapel by Wraggs of Harwood Street, Sheffield." The maker mark is shown on the handle rosewood with a Sheffield steel blade and a black cover The blade is 6cm long and the black cover is 8.5cm long ".

A company WRAGGS is still in Sheffield today, but "electric".

Nota: to the so-called eraser knives: Langenbeck speaks literally of the "eraser of the convex scalpel" (Conrad Johann Martin Langenbeck, Nosology and Therapy of Surgical Diseases, Göttingen 1830 Volume 4, 4th section p.163).