Obstetrical Forceps
date: label: date made
content: ca 1890
notes: label: Description
content: This type of obstetrical forceps was associated with Ellerslie Wallace (1818-1885), a graduate of the Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia who served the school as Professor of Obstetrics and the Diseases of Women and Children in 1862-1883, and as Dean in 1879-1883.
label: Description
content: Ref: Barton Cooke Hirst, A System of Obstetrics (Philadelphia, 1889), vol. II, pp. 131-132.
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.316358.16
label: catalog number
content: 316358.16
label: accession number
content: 316358
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Forceps, Obstetrical, Wallace
label: Object Name
content: obstetrical forceps
label: Other Terms
content: Forceps, Obstetrical, Wallace; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 7/8 in x 3 1/8 in x 16 1/2 in; 9.8425 cm x 7.9375 cm x 41.91 cm