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Description: | This knife has a curved steel blade and a turned wooden handle. It was used for amputations. It is part of a collection of instruments thought to have been made in 1702-04 for Newcastle's Company of Barber Surgeons. The Company goes back to 1442. Its members could borrow the instruments when they were asked to perform an operation. In addition to cutting and shaving hair, the barber surgeons pulled teeth, amputated limbs, cut out bullets, sewed up wounds and all without painkillers. Many people died after surgery. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | living in the North East health | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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