Spring Lancet
name: label: maker
content: Wiegand & Snowden
notes: label: Description
content: Spring lancet with a “WIEGAND & SNOWDEN / PHILADEPHIA” inscription. John Wiegand and Thomas Snowden worked together from 1824 to 1855, making and selling surgical instruments.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1977.0789.11
label: catalog number
content: 1977.0789.11
label: accession number
content: 1977.0789
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Lancet
label: Object Name
content: lancet, set
label: Object Name
content: bloodletting
label: Other Terms
content: Lancet; Bloodletting Instruments; Spring
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: leather (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: fabric, velvet (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: black (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: red (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 5.5 cm x 3 cm x 1.7 cm; 2 3/16 in x 1 3/16 in x 11/16 in
label: Measurements
content: case: 5/8 in x 2 3/4 in x 1 3/8 in; 1.5875 cm x 6.985 cm x 3.4925 cm
label: Measurements
content: lancet: 1/2 in x 2 1/4 in x 1 1/4 in; 1.27 cm x 5.715 cm x 3.175 cm