Object Details
- Description
- 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.
- This example came from the Surgical Set of Dr. William Park of the City of New York Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of the City of New York Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
- ID Number
- 2017.0184.002.23
- catalog number
- 2017.0184.002.23
- accession number
- 2017.0184
- Object Name
- surgical set
- curette, adenoid
- Physical Description
- metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 2 cm x 2.3 cm x 20.3 cm; 25/32 in x 29/32 in x 8 in
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- The Antibody Initiative
- Antibody Initiative: New York City Public Health Collections
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1845339
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b3-6e93-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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