Noyes Alligator Forceps
date: label: date made
content: about 1950
notes: label: Description
content: The Noyes Alligator forceps, designed for extracting items from noses, is named for Henry Dewey Noyes (1832-1900), a professor of ophthalmology and otology at Bellevue Hospital in New York. The inscriptions on one side of this example read “M-F” and “STAINLESS” while those on the other read “MISDOM-FRANK” and “GERMANY.”
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: Germany
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Julius Lempert, M.D., Lempert Institute of Otology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-09857
label: catalog number
content: M-09857
label: accession number
content: 227302
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Forceps, Alligator
label: Object Name
content: forceps, alligator
label: Object Name
content: surgical instrument
label: Other Terms
content: Forceps, Alligator; Surgery
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/8 in x 3 3/4 in x 4 1/2 in; .3175 cm x 9.525 cm x 11.43 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/8 in x 5 5/8 in x 2 1/8 in; .3175 cm x 14.2875 cm x 5.3975 cm