Obstetrical Forceps
notes: label: Description
content: The form of obstetrical forceps was associated with Sir James Young Simpson (1811-1870), a Scottish obstetrician. 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. 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: Description
content: L. E. Neale, “Reports on Obstetrics,” Transactions of the Medical and Chirugical Society of the State of Maryland 87 (1885): 124-140, on 131-132.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Maryland, Baltimore
topic: label: Subject
content: Women's Health
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of 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.302606.285
label: accession number
content: 302606
label: catalog number
content: 302606.285
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: 35.7 cm x 9 cm x 7 cm; 14 1/16 in x 3 9/16 in x 2 3/4 in