Obstetrical Forceps
date: label: date made
content: ca 1920
notes: label: Description
content: This form of obstetrical forceps was associated with Sir James Young Simpson (1811-1870), a Scottish obstetrician.
label: Description
content: Ref. James Young Simpson, “On the Mode of Application of the Long Forceps,” Edinburgh Monthly Journal of Medical Science (Sept. 1848): 193-.
label: Description
content: George Tiemann & Co., Armamentarium Chirurgicum (New York, 1879), p. 104.
label: Description
content: L. E. Neale, “Reports on Obstetrics,” Transactions of the Medical and Chirugical Society of the State of Maryland 87 (1885): 124-140, on 131-132.
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.316358.31
label: catalog number
content: 316358.31
label: accession number
content: 316358
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Forceps, Obstetrical, Simpson
label: Object Name
content: obstetrical forceps
label: Other Terms
content: Forceps, Obstetrical, Simpson; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 7/8 in x 3 1/2 in x 13 3/4 in; 7.3025 cm x 8.89 cm x 34.925 cm