Obstetrical Forceps
notes: label: Description
content: The form of these obstetrical forceps was introduced by Etienne Stephane Tarnier (1828-1897), a prominent professor of obstetrics in Paris. The “WILLMS S. I. CO.” 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: M. Tarnier, Description de deux Nouveaux Forceps (Paris, 1877).
label: Description
content: “The New Forceps of M. Tarnier,” British Medical Journal (May 26, 1877): 665-666.
label: Description
content: George Tiemann & Co., Armamentarium Chirurgicum (New York, 1879), p. 1.
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.302606.290
label: accession number
content: 302606
label: catalog number
content: 302606.290
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Forceps
label: Object Name
content: obstetrical forceps
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 39 cm x 10 cm x 5 cm; 15 3/8 in x 3 15/16 in x 1 15/16 in