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Title	Dental Elevator
Creator	Unknown
Date	ca. 1840
Subject	Tooth Extraction Tooth Extraction -- history Tooth Extraction -- instrumentation Tooth Extraction -- methods
Description	0.75 x 6 x 1" Tooth extraction: Elevator. Dental Instruments. Steel instrument with curved tip and an ebony handle, used to raise teeth from socket.
Digital Collection	Waring Historical Library Artifact Collection
Web Site	http: //waring.library.musc.edu
Holding Institution	Waring Historical Library (MUSC)
Rights	Digital image copyright 2010, the Waring Historical Library. For more information, please contact the Waring Historical Library.
SC County	Charleston County (S.C.)
SC Region	Lowcountry
Digitization Specifications	Fujifilm FinePixS2Pro, Shutter speed: 1/125 sec, F-stop: f/32.0, Aperture value: f/32, ISO Speed Ratings: 400, Focal Length: 105.0 mm
Date Digital	2010-07-13
Type	Still Image
Format	image/jpeg
Media Type	Images
Resource Identifier	26
Note	Belonged to Dr. F.F. Gary of Cokesbury, SC (1829-1887), confederate surgeon and president of the SCMA in 1882. Given by the owner's granddaughter, Miss Elmina Eason of Charleston, SC.
CONTENTdm number	522
CONTENTdm file name	523.jpg

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