Adenoid Curette
notes: label: Description
content: Steel adenoid curette with a “W. F. FORD / S.I. CO. N.Y.” inscription. Jacob Gottstein (1832-1895), an otologist in Breslau, introduced the form in 1886. William Fraser Ford (1820-1897) was a machinist from England who arrived in New York in 1848 and worked with several surgical instrument makers. His firm became Wade & Ford in 1861, and William F. Ford & Co. after the Civil War.
label: Description
content: This example came from the Surgical Set of Dr. William Park of the City of New York Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: The Antibody Initiative
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content: Antibody Initiative: New York City Public Health Collections
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of the City of New York Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2017.0184.002.23
label: catalog number
content: 2017.0184.002.23
label: accession number
content: 2017.0184
objectType: label: Object Name
content: surgical set
label: Object Name
content: curette, adenoid
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 cm x 2.3 cm x 20.3 cm; 25/32 in x 29/32 in x 8 in