Forceps
Forceps
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- Description
- Stainless steel forceps made in Germany. The form, sometimes termed a dressing forceps, was used for otoscopy, and associated with Arthur Hartmann (1849-1931), a German laryngologist.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Forceps
- nasal forceps
- forceps
- Other Terms
- Forceps; Surgery
- Measurements
- overall:.7 cm x 6 cm x 16 cm; 1/4 in x 2 3/8 in x 6 5/16 in
- ID Number
- 1977.0808.003
- accession number
- 1977.0808
- catalog number
- 1977.0808.003
- Credit Line
- Donated by St. Louis Medical Society through Harry O. Cole & Gordon R. Garrett
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- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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