Dental Pelican
notes: label: Description
content: The dental pelican for pulling teeth may have originated Europe in the fourteenth century. The first published account appeared in a text written by Walther Hermann Ryff (ca. 1500-1548), a German polymath and prolific author. This example was purchased in France.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
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-07718
label: catalog number
content: M-07718
label: accession number
content: 220284
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Pelican, Adjustable
label: Object Name
content: dental pelican
label: Object Name
content: pelican
label: Object Name
content: dental instrument
label: Other Terms
content: Pelican, Adjustable; Dentistry
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 7/8 in x 5 1/8 in x 1 in; 2.2225 cm x 13.0175 cm x 2.54 cm