Surgical Needle Holder
notes: label: Description
content: Richter’s surgical needle holder was designed by Gustav F. Richter, an instrument maker in Brooklyn.
label: Description
content: Ref: Gustav F. Richter, “Needle-Holder,” U.S. Patent 776,688 (Dec. 6, 1904).
label: Description
content: The Kny-Scheerer Co., Illustrations of Surgical Instruments of Superior Quality (New York, 1915), p. 2218.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Donated by St. Louis Medical Society through Harry O. Cole & Gordon R. Garrett
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1977.0808.072
label: accession number
content: 1977.0808
label: catalog number
content: 1977.0808.072
objectType: label: Object Name
content: needle holder
label: Other Terms
content: Surgery
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1.8 cm x 8.2 cm x 20.4 cm; 11/16 in x 3 1/4 in x 8 1/16 in