Obstetrical Forceps
name: label: maker
content: Willms
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 "WILLMS" inscription.
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
place: label: place made
content: United States: Maryland, Baltimore
topic: label: Subject
content: Women's Health
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.302606.090
label: catalog number
content: 302606.090
label: accession number
content: 302606
objectType: label: Object Name
content: forceps, obstetrical
label: Other Terms
content: Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/4 in x 14 3/4 in x 2 3/4 in; 8.255 cm x 37.465 cm x 6.985 cm