Dental Forceps
Dental Forceps
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- Description
- Dental forceps were known by the eighteenth century. This example, purchased in Germany, resembles that shown in Giovanni Alessandro Brambilla, Instrumentarium Chirurgicum (Vienna, 1780), plate XIV, fig. 5.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Forceps
- forceps, dental
- dental instrument
- Physical Description
- metal, steel (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 5.5 cm x 2 cm x 13.6 cm; 2 3/16 in x 13/16 in x 5 3/8 in
- overall: 3/4 in x 5 1/2 in x 2 1/2 in; 1.905 cm x 13.97 cm x 6.35 cm
- ID Number
- MG.M-07719
- accession number
- 220284
- catalog number
- M-07719
- accession number
- 220284
- Credit Line
- from Mr. Robert Meibauer
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- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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