Dental Forceps
notes: label: Description
content: Dental forceps with a “SHEPHERD'S . . . FORCEPS” inscription on the inside of the handle. J. Glasford Shepherd was a London dentist who described the form in 1834. These were probably made by John Weiss, a leading surgical instrument maker in London.
label: Description
content: Ref: J. Glasford Shepherd, “Mr. Shepherd’s New Forceps for the Safe Extraction of Stumps of Teeth,” The Lancet 2 (1834): 313-314.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Dentistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of University of Pennsylvania School of Dentistry
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-08579
label: catalog number
content: M-08579
label: accession number
content: 218383
objectType: label: Object Name
content: forceps, dental extraction
label: Object Name
content: forceps, dental
label: Other Terms
content: Dentistry
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 5/8 in x 6 in; x 4.1275 cm x 15.24 cm