| Reference Number | READ/210 |
| Title | Artery Forceps |
| Date | 1875-1925 |
| Description | Artery forceps of the Liston's type, a tweezer-shaped instrument with interlocking toothed tips (one with a single tooth, the other with two) for grasping tissue. It features an internal spring-locking mechanism and a tapered finger rest on the shafts. Four of them are wrapped in paper. |
| Extent | 8 items |
| Dimensions | 120mm x 5mm x 10mm |
| Digital Collections | View online in our digital collections |
| Copyright | Free to use under the terms of the Creative Commons Licence Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) |
| Credit Line | Royal College of Physicians of Ireland |
| Object Name | Tweezers |
| Term | General Practice -- Instrumentation |
| General Surgery -- Instrumentation |