A 19th-Century steel Civiale-pattern lithotrite,

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A 19th-Century steel Civiale-pattern lithotrite,
signed CHARRIERE A PARIS 1/2, with brass collar to allow the moving rod to travel freely or be screwed in and out, calibrated 0-30 -- 15in. (38cm.) long
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Literature
Notice des Instruments de Chirurgie Humaine ... de la Maison Charrière (Paris, 1862). Cf. p. 106, fig. 272 for a similar instrument.

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