Bullet or Foreign Body Extractor

From: joshuasattic.com

This type of forcep instrument has wide serrated cups on the ends in order to grab bullets or foreign bodies out from wounds. Imagine a field surgeon in a bloody butcher's smock without gloves digging "by feel" around inside your arm or leg! This is a smaller version at 4 1/4 inches long. It is maker-marked "Lentz".

Posted in: Civil War Medical Instruments and Supplies