Obstetrical Forceps
date: label: date made
content: ca 1850-1875
notes: label: Description
content: The form of these forceps was associated with Hugh Lenox Hodge (1796-1873), professor of obstetrics at the University of Pennsylvania.
label: Description
content: Ref: Hugh Lenox Hodge, The Principles and Practice of Obstetrics (Philadelphia, 1864).
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: 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.316358.13
label: catalog number
content: 316358.13
label: accession number
content: 316358
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Forceps
label: Object Name
content: obstetrical forceps
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 3/8 in x 16 3/4 in x 2 3/8 in; 8.5725 cm x 42.545 cm x 6.0325 cm