Obstetrical Forceps
notes: label: Description
content: The “DR. COMSTOCK’S / ST. LOUIS FORCEPS” inscription here refers to Thomas Griswold Comstock (ca. 1828-), a professor of obstetrics at the St. Louis College of Homeopathic Physicians and Surgeons.
label: Description
content: Ref: T. G. Comstock, “The Obstetrical Forceps,” The Western Homeopathic Observer 6 (1869): 73-76.
label: Description
content: George Tiemann & Co., Armamentarium Chirurgicum (New York, 1879), p. 107.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Women's Health
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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.316358.32
label: catalog number
content: 316358.32
label: accession number
content: 316358
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Forceps, Obstetrical, Combstock's
label: Object Name
content: obstetrical forceps
label: Other Terms
content: Forceps, Obstetrical, Combstock's; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/8 in x 3 1/4 in x 14 1/4 in; 7.9375 cm x 8.255 cm x 36.195 cm