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Artifact Name	Tumor Seizing Forceps
Type of Object	Forceps, retrieval
Manufacturer	Tiemann
Place of Manufacture	New York (N.Y.)
Date of Manufacture	1876-1878
Time Period	Nineteenth century
Dimensions	1.7 cm. x 20 cm. x 6.5 cm.
Physical Details	Tumor seizing forceps with a hardened rubber handle. Forceps have six curved tenaculum blades connected to a two ringed handle. Blades are spring loaded. Two rings slide along slots in the brown hard rubber handle. Brown handle has diamond pattern etched on both sides and also has the following written on it: "TIEMANN & CO." Instrument devised by Dr. A. Spiers George (MCV 1876) of Richmond, VA.
Medical Subject	Surgical Instruments; Colorectal surgery -- instrumentation
Accession Number	1988.2
Type	Stillimage
Format	image/jp2
Rights Management	© VCU. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 Acknowledgement of the Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is required.
Collection	Medical Artifacts Collection
Contributor	Tompkins-McCaw Library. Special Collections & Archives
Digital Publisher	VCU Libraries
Local genre	medical artifact

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