Obstetrical Forceps
notes: label: Description
content: This type of obstetrical forceps was introduced around 1860 by Edwin Moses Hale (1829-1899), professor of materia medica and therapeutics at Hahnemann Medical College in Chicago. This example was made by John Reynders (1834-1910), a surgical instrument maker from Hanover who emigrated to the United States as a young man.
label: Description
content: Ref: George Tiemann & Co., Armamentarium Chirurgicum (New York, 1879), p. 108.
label: Description
content: Edwin M. Hale, “Hale’s Obstetric Forceps,” The Homoeopathic Journal of Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Paedology (1889): 210-213.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
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.302606.095
label: catalog number
content: 302606.095
label: accession number
content: 302606
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Forceps, Obstetrical, Hale's
label: Object Name
content: obstetrical forceps
label: Object Name
content: forceps, obstetrical
label: Other Terms
content: Forceps, Obstetrical, Hale's; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/4 in x 2 3/4 in x 9 3/4 in; 5.715 cm x 6.985 cm x 24.765 cm