Tonsil Forceps
notes: label: Description
content: This type of tonsil forceps, or vulsellum, was associated with William Evans Casselberry (1858-1916), professor of laryngology at Northwestern University Medical School and, in 1898, president of the American Laryngological Assn.
label: Description
content: Ref: W. E. Casselberry, “Abscission of the Tonsils,” Chicago Medical Reporter (Jan. 1893): 1-10, on 6.
label: Description
content: Charles Truax, The Mechanics of Surgery (Chicago, 1899), p. 660.
label: Description
content: “DR. CASSELBERRY, SPECIALIST, DIES,” Chicago Tribune (July 12, 1916), p. 15.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Donated by St. Louis Medical Society through Harry O. Cole & Gordon R. Garrett
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1977.0808.084
label: accession number
content: 1977.0808
label: catalog number
content: 1977.0808.084
objectType: label: Object Name
content: forceps
label: Other Terms
content: Surgery
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 5/8 in x 2 1/4 in x 7 1/4 in; 1.5875 cm x 5.715 cm x 18.415 cm