Tonsil Snare
notes: label: Description
content: Tonsil snare with a "PATENTED April 2 05" inscription. Although the patent has not been identified, we suspect the form was designed by Alice Gertrude Bryant (1862-1942), a graduate of Vassar College and of the Women’s Medical College of New York (1890) who practiced at the New England Hospital for Women and Children and at the New England Deaconess Hospital, and who is regarded as the first woman to specialize in otolaryngology.
label: Description
content: Ref: Alice G. Bryant, “A New Tonsil Tenaculum,” The Larygnoscope 15 (1905): 947.
label: Description
content: Alice G. Bryant, “The Use of the Cold Wire Snare in the Removal of Hypertrophied Tonsils,” The Journal of Laryngology (Nov. 1906): 556-561.
label: Description
content: “DR. ALICE G. BRYANT, A BOSTON PHYSICIAN,” New York Times (July 27, 1942), p. 15.
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content: “Dr. Alice Bryant, Surgeon, Artist, Is Dead at 80,” Boston Globe (July 27, 1942), p. 8.
label: Description
content: Autumn Stanley, Mothers and Daughters of Invention (Rutgers University Press, 1993), p. 108.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Women Inventors
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: From R.N. Taylor M.D., thru Mystic Seaport, Inc.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1977.1223.105
label: accession number
content: 1977.1223
label: catalog number
content: 1977.1223.105
objectType: label: Object Name
content: snare, tonsil
label: Object Name
content: snare
label: Other Terms
content: Surgery
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 5/16 in x 2 13/16 in x 6 5/16 in; 16.03375 cm x 7.14375 cm x 16.03375 cm