Obstetrical Forceps
date: label: date made
content: ca 1915
notes: label: Description
content: Frederick C. Irving, professor of obstetrics at the Harvard Medical School and visiting obstetrician at the Boston Lying-In Hospital, introduced this type of axis traction forceps in 1915.
label: Description
content: Ref: Frederick C. Irving, “The Tarnier Axis Traction Rods Applied to the Simpson Obstetric Forceps,” Surgery, Gynecology, and Obstetrics 10 (1915): 734.
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.316358.55
label: catalog number
content: 316358.55
label: accession number
content: 316358
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Forceps, Irving Axis Traction
label: Object Name
content: obstetrical forceps
label: Other Terms
content: Forceps, Irving Axis Traction; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 14 1/2 in x 8 3/4 in x 3 1/4 in; 36.83 cm x 22.225 cm x 8.255 cm