Obstetrical Forceps
notes: label: Description
content: This type of obstetrical forceps, with a screw in the handle, was introduced by George Thomson Elliot (1827-1871), a New York obstetrician. This example has a wooden handle.
label: Description
content: Ref: George T. Elliott, “Description of a New Midwifery Forceps, Having a Sliding Pivot to prevent Compression of the Foetal Head,” New York Journal of Medicine 5 (1853): 160-163.
label: Description
content: George Tiemann & Co., Armamentarium Chirurgicum (New York, 1879), p. 104.
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.316358.18
label: catalog number
content: 316358.18
label: accession number
content: 316358
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Forceps, Obstetrical, Elliott
label: Object Name
content: obstetrical forceps
label: Other Terms
content: Forceps, Obstetrical, Elliott; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 15/16 in x 3 1/8 in x 15 1/4 in; 7.46125 cm x 7.9375 cm x 38.735 cm