Forceps (2)
notes: label: Description
content: Ferguson's straight steel forceps, 5.5-inches long, with serrated beaks, screw lock, and "Betsy Ross, Trademark" inscription. Joseph Ross & Co., of Irvington, N.J., obtained a trademark on the term "Betsy Ross" in 1918. The form was associated with James Haig Ferguson (1862-1934), a prominent Scottish obstetrician and gynecologist.
label: Description
content: Ref: Kny-Scheerer & Co., Illustrations of Surgical Instruments (New York, 1915), p. 2019.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Dr. Joseph Blinder
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.309903.32
label: catalog number
content: 309903.28
label: accession number
content: 309903
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Forceps, Hemostatic, Batch of
label: Object Name
content: forceps
label: Other Terms
content: Forceps, Hemostatic, Batch of; Surgery
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/4 in x 2 3/4 in x 5 5/8 in; .635 cm x 6.985 cm x 14.25575 cm