Obstetrical Forceps
name: label: maker
content: Willms
notes: label: Description
content: This type of obstetrical forceps was associated with Sir James Young Simpson (1811-1870), a Scottish obstetrician. The “WILLMS / BALTO” inscription is that of a surgical instrument firm established in Baltimore in 1871 by Charles and John Peter Willms, recent immigrants from Germany.
label: Description
content: Ref: James Young Simpson, “On the Mode of Application of the Long Forceps,” Edinburgh Monthly Journal of Medical Science (Sept. 1848): 193-.
label: Description
content: George Tiemann & Co., Armamentarium Chirurgicum (New York, 1879), p. 104.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Maryland, Baltimore
topic: label: Subject
content: Women's Health
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.302606.071
label: accession number
content: 302606
label: catalog number
content: 302606.071
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Forceps
label: Object Name
content: obstetrical forceps
label: Object Name
content: forceps, obstetrical
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber, hard (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brown (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 35 cm x 8.2 cm x 7.5 cm; 13 3/4 in x 3 1/4 in x 2 15/16 in