Obstetrical Forceps
date: label: date made
content: ca 1881
notes: label: Description
content: This type of obstetrical forceps was introduced around 1860 by Edwin Moses Hale (1829-1899), professor of materia medica and therapeutics at Hahnemann Medical College in Chicago.
label: Description
content: Ref: George Tiemann & Co., Armamentarium Chirurgicum (New York, 1879), p. 108.
label: Description
content: Edwin M. Hale, “Hale’s Obstetric Forceps,” The Homoeopathic Journal of Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Paedology (1889): 210-213.
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.316358.09
label: catalog number
content: 316358.09
label: accession number
content: 316358
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Forceps, Obstetrical, Hales
label: Object Name
content: obstetrical forceps
label: Other Terms
content: Forceps, Obstetrical, Hales; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/8 in x 3 in x 10 in; 5.3975 cm x 7.62 cm x 25.4 cm