Surgical Scissors
date: label: associated dates
content: 1983 10
notes: label: Description
content: The Potts Smith surgical scissors were associated with Willis J. Potts (1895-1968), a pediatric surgeon famous for operating on blue babies.
label: Description
content: Ref: Pilling, Thoracic and General Surgical Instruments (Philadelphia, 1979), p. 197.
label: Description
content: “Willis J. Potts, Noted Pediatric Surgeon, Dies,” Los Angeles Times (May 8, 1968), p. E16.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: associated place
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Fort Washington
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Pilling Weck
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1994.0365.32
label: catalog number
content: 1994.0365.32
label: accession number
content: 1994.0365
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Scissors
label: Object Name
content: scissors
label: Object Name
content: surgical instrument
label: Other Terms
content: Scissors; Cutting Instruments; Vascular
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, stainless steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: black (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 5.9 cm x .4 cm x 18.7 cm; 2 5/16 in x 3/16 in x 7 3/8 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/8 in x 7 3/8 in x 2 1/8 in; .3175 cm x 18.7325 cm x 5.3975 cm