Obstetrical Forceps
date: label: date made
content: ca 1920
notes: label: Description
content: Edmund Brown Piper (1891-1935), a professor at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, devised a form of obstetrical forceps for breech deliveries in 1929. This example is of that sort.
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.316358.61
label: catalog number
content: 316358.61
label: accession number
content: 316358
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Forceps, Obstetrical, Piper
label: Object Name
content: obstetrical forceps
label: Other Terms
content: Forceps, Obstetrical, Piper; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/4 in x 3 1/8 in x 18 in; 10.795 cm x 7.9375 cm x 45.72 cm