Obstetrical Forceps
date: label: date made
content: ca 1885
notes: label: Description
content: This form of obstetrical forceps was associated with Edward Warren Sawyer (1848-1897), a lecturer on obstetrics and the diseases of children at the Rush Medical College in Chicago.
label: Description
content: Ref: Edward Warren Sawyer, “A New Obstetric Forceps,” Chicago Medical Journal and Examiner 33 (1876): 46-48.
label: Description
content: George Tiemann & Co., Armamentarium Chirurgicum (New York, 1879), Supplement p. 1.
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.316358.08
label: catalog number
content: 316358.08
label: accession number
content: 316358
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Forceps, Obstetrical, Outlet
label: Object Name
content: obstetrical forceps
label: Other Terms
content: Forceps, Obstetrical, Outlet; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/2 in x 3 1/4 in x 10 3/8 in; 8.89 cm x 8.255 cm x 26.3525 cm