Obstetrical Forceps
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.
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
topic: label: Subject
content: Women's Health
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Eleanor P. Custis
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-07915
label: catalog number
content: M-07915
label: accession number
content: 223292
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Forceps, Obstetrical, Elliott's
label: Object Name
content: obstetrical forceps
label: Other Terms
content: Forceps, Obstetrical, Elliott's; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 3/4 in x 2 13/16 in x 12 1/8 in; 6.985 cm x 7.14375 cm x 30.7975 cm