Forceps
notes: label: Description
content: This form of forceps for uterine polyps was associated with Alfred Henry McClintock (1821-1881), an Irish obstetrician whose motto—“meddlesome midwifery is bad”—expressed his ambivalence with regard to the use of forceps in deliveries.
label: Description
content: Ref: Tiemann & Co., The American Armamentarium Chirurgicum (New York, 1879), p. 99.
label: Description
content: The Kny-Scheerer Co., Illustrations of Surgical Instruments of Superior Quality (New York, 1915), p. 5105
label: Description
content: “Alfred H. McClintock,” in The British Medical Journal 2 (1881): 722-723.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Eleanor P. Custis
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-07911
label: catalog number
content: M-07911
label: accession number
content: 223292
objectType: label: Object Name
content: surgical forceps
label: Other Terms
content: Surgery
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/8 in x 2 7/16 in x 8 7/8 in; .9525 cm x 6.19125 cm x 22.5425 cm