Obstetrical Forceps
date: label: date made
content: ca 1850
notes: label: Description
content: The Hodge type forceps was devised by Hugh Lenox Hodge (1796-1873), Professor of Obstetrics and the Diseases of Women at the University of Pennsylvania, with the aid of the John Rorer, a surgical instrument maker in Philadelphia. The form was also known as the eclectic forceps.
label: Description
content: Ref: Hugh L. Hodge, The Principles and Practice of Obstetrics (Philadelphia, 1864), pp. 242-244 and pl. XV.
label: Description
content: William Goodell, Biographical Memoir of Hugh L. Hodge, M.D., LL.D. (Philadelphia, 1874).
label: Description
content: George Tiemann & Co., Armamentarium Chirurgicum (New York, 1879), p. 103.
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: 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.316358.10
label: catalog number
content: 316358.10
label: accession number
content: 316358
objectType: label: Object Name
content: forceps, obstetrical
label: Other Terms
content: Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/4 in x 17 1/4 in x 2 7/8 in; 8.255 cm x 43.815 cm x 7.3025 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 7/8 in x 2 1/2 in x 17 in; 9.8425 cm x 6.35 cm x 43.18 cm