Obstetrical Forceps
date: label: date made
content: ca 1948
notes: label: Description
content: Dr. N. J. A. F. DuBoerma, a gynecologist in Groningen, introduced this form of forceps in 1907.
label: Description
content: Ref: Walter B. Jennings, “Obstetrics and Gynaecology,” Medical Review of Reviews 13 (1907): 745.
label: Description
content: Roemer Drug Co., Illustrations of Surgical Instruments (Milwaukee, 1915), p. 5004.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Women's Health
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Edgar Haybeck, M.D., Obstetric & Gynecology, Centreal Medico-Surgical Clinic, West Allis WI
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.316358.38
label: catalog number
content: 316358.38
label: accession number
content: 316358
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Forceps, Obstetrical, Du Boerma
label: Object Name
content: obstetrical forceps
label: Other Terms
content: Forceps, Obstetrical, Du Boerma; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 3/4 in x 3 3/4 in x 11 1/2 in; 9.525 cm x 9.525 cm x 29.21 cm