Forceps
notes: label: Description
content: Halsted Mosquito Forceps are designed for clamping blood vessels or other small tissues to control bleeding during surgery or to provide a secure grip. They are so named because they resemble the slender legs of a mosquito.
label: Description
content: Ref: The Kny-Scheerer Co., Illustrations of Surgical Instruments of Superior Quality (New York, 1915), p. 2020.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
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: 1977.0808.071
label: accession number
content: 1977.0808
label: catalog number
content: 1977.0808.071
objectType: label: Object Name
content: forceps
label: Other Terms
content: Surgery
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 cm x .7 cm x 13.9 cm; 2 3/8 in x 1/4 in x 5 1/2 in