Surgical Incision Retractor

Title: Surgical Incision Retractor
Description: Retractors, like this antique example, are tools used to pull away soft tissue and organs from parts of the body that must be accessed to perform vital surgical procedures on patients. There is archaeological evidence of this tool being used as far back as the Stone Age.
Subject: Surgical soft-tissue separator
Creator: FUA
Publisher: Creighton University Archives and Special Collections
Date: Late 18th - early 19th century
Contributor: Mary Mayfield and Leah Keith