Object Details
- Description
- In late 1862, Auguste Nelaton (1807-1873), a professor of surgery in Paris, developed a metal probe with a porcelain tip to determine if there was a bullet in Giuseppe Garibaldi’s ankle. This bullet probe is of that sort. An inscription reads “HOLEKAMP-MOORE Co. / ST.LOUIS.”
- Ref: George Tiemann & Co., The American Armamentarium Chirugicum (New York, 1897), p. 40.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- Credit Line
- Donated by St. Louis Medical Society through Harry O. Cole & Gordon R. Garrett
- Physical Description
- metal (overall material)
- porcelain (overall material)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 10 in x 3/16 in; 25.4 cm x .39878 cm
- overall: 10 in x 1/8 in; x 25.4 cm x .3175 cm
- Object Name
- surgical instrument
- Probe, Bullet
- bullet probe
- Other Terms
- Probe, Bullet; Exploring Instruments; Bullet
