Green's Folding Tongue Depressor
name: label: maker
content: Ford, William F.
notes: label: Description
content: Hinged tongue depressor with an ivory handle. The form was associated with Horace Green (1802-1866), a graduate of the Castleton Medical College in Vermont who moved to New York City in 1835, specialized in diseases of the airways, and became known as the father of American laryngology and trachea-bronchology.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Death of Horace Green, M.D.,” New York Times (Dec. 3. 1866), p. 4.
label: Description
content: George Tiemann & Co., The American Armamentarium Chirugicum (New York, 1879), p. 62.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Transfer from U.S. Department of Health, Education & Welfare. Public Health Service
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1980.0349.09.058
label: accession number
content: 1980.0349
label: catalog number
content: 1980.0349.09.058
objectType: label: Object Name
content: tongue depressor
label: Object Name
content: surgical set
label: Object Name
content: Forceps
label: Object Name
content: Tongue Depressor
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall, folded: 1/2 in x 4 in x 1 1/8 in; 1.27 cm x 10.16 cm x 2.8575 cm