Dental Forceps
notes: label: Description
content: Dental forceps were known by the eighteenth century. This example, purchased in Germany, resembles that shown in Giovanni Alessandro Brambilla, Instrumentarium Chirurgicum (Vienna, 1780), plate XIV, fig. 5.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Mr. Robert Meibauer
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-07719
label: accession number
content: 220284
label: catalog number
content: M-07719
label: accession number
content: 220284
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Forceps
label: Object Name
content: forceps, dental
label: Object Name
content: dental instrument
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5.5 cm x 2 cm x 13.6 cm; 2 3/16 in x 13/16 in x 5 3/8 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/4 in x 5 1/2 in x 2 1/2 in; 1.905 cm x 13.97 cm x 6.35 cm