Forceps
notes: label: Description
content: Tait’s forceps with a "Pat'd. 5-3-92" inscription. Lawson Tait (1845-1899) was a British surgeon and gynecologist who introduced the form in his text of 1883. The referenced patent was issued to Paul Henger, a German surgical instrument maker; and allowed the instrument “to be taken apart and reunited in the simplest manner for the purpose of permitting a thorough cleaning and sharpening of the parts detached from each other.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Lawson Tait, The Pathology and Treatment of Diseases of the Ovaries (New York, 1883), p. 258.
label: Description
content: W. J. Stewart McKay, Lawson Tait: His Life and Work (New York, 1922).
label: Description
content: Paul Henger, “Surgical Instrument,” U.S. Patent 474,130 (May 3, 1892).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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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.309903.36
label: catalog number
content: 309903.32
label: accession number
content: 309903
objectType: label: Object Name
content: forceps
label: Other Terms
content: Surgery
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/4 in x 2 in x 4 3/8 in; .635 cm x 5.08 cm x 11.1125 cm