Forceps
notes: label: Description
content: Straight forceps with diagonally-serrated edges (5 cm) that come to a point, with six locking ridges and a covered screw joint. The forceps are nickel plated and were part of a midwife's kit from Buffalo, NY, about 1920.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Women's Health
label: Subject
content: Medicine
label: Subject
content: Surgical instruments
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Midwife Kit
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift from Joseph Badlotto in memory of Rosa Bonfante and her daughter Mary Bonfante Chirchirillo Badlotto
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2012.0128.22
label: accession number
content: 2012.0128
label: catalog number
content: 2012.0128.22
label: accession number
content: 2012.0128
label: catalog number
content: 2012.0128.22
objectType: label: Object Name
content: forceps
label: Object Name
content: midwife's kit
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/8 in x 7 in x 3 1/8 in; .9525 cm x 17.78 cm x 7.9375 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 18 cm x 8.5 cm x 1 cm; 7 3/32 in x 3 11/32 in x 13/32 in