Forceps
notes: label: Description
content: The Pennington clip is a specialized forceps associated with John Rawson Pennington (1858-1927), professor of rectal diseases at the Chicago Clinical School, chief surgeon for fistula and other diseases of the rectum at the Good Samaritan Hospital, and consulting surgeon at the Mary Thompson Hospital for Women and Children. The form was known by 1902. This example was made in Germany and sold by Sharp & Smith in the U.S.
label: Description
content: Ref: The Kny-Scheerer Co., Illustrations of Surgical Instruments (New York, 1915), p. 2024.
label: Description
content: “J. R. Pennington, Chicago Surgeon Taken By Death,” Chicago Tribune (Feb. 4, 1927), p. 18.
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: 1977.0808.048
label: accession number
content: 1977.0808
label: catalog number
content: 1977.0808.048
objectType: label: Object Name
content: forceps
label: Other Terms
content: Surgery
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/2 in x 2 5/8 in x 5 5/8 in; 1.27 cm x 6.6675 cm x 14.2875 cm