Obstetrical Forceps
date: label: date made
content: ca 1890
notes: label: Description
content: Caesar A. von Ramdohr (1853/55-1913), a German immigrant who became a Professor of Obstetrics at the New York Medical School, showed obstetrical forceps of this sort to the New York Academy of Medicine in 1892. This example has an ebony handle.
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.316358.21
label: catalog number
content: 316358.21
label: accession number
content: 316358
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Forceps, Obstetrical, Ramdohr
label: Object Name
content: obstetrical forceps
label: Other Terms
content: Forceps, Obstetrical, Ramdohr; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 3/4 in x 2 3/8 in x 14 in; 6.985 cm x 6.0325 cm x 35.56 cm