Obstetrical Forceps
name: label: maker
content: F Arnold and Son
notes: label: Description
content: This type of obstetrical forceps was associated with Sir James Young Simpson (1811-1870), a Scottish obstetrician. An inscription on this example reads "F. ARNOLD & SON / BALT."
label: Description
content: Ref: James Young Simpson, “On the Mode of Application of the Long Forceps,” Edinburgh Monthly Journal of Medical Science (Sept. 1848): 193-.
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
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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.302606.358
label: accession number
content: 302606
label: catalog number
content: 302606.358
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Forceps
label: Object Name
content: obstetrical forceps
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: black (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 35 cm x 9 cm x 7.8 cm; 13 3/4 in x 3 9/16 in x 3 1/16 in