Obstetrical Forceps
date: label: date made
content: ca 1911
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, How to Save the Perineum: A New Use of the Obstetric Forceps (1878).
label: Description
content: George Tiemann & Co., Armamentarium Chirurgicum (New York, 1879), p. 109.
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.316358.01
label: catalog number
content: 316358.01
label: accession number
content: 316358
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Forceps, Obstetrical, Sawyer
label: Object Name
content: obstetrical forceps
label: Other Terms
content: Forceps, Obstetrical, Sawyer; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/8 in x 3 in x 10 1/2 in; 5.3975 cm x 7.62 cm x 26.67 cm