Obstetrical Forceps
date: label: Date made
content: About 1860
name: label: user
content: Blake, Nancy Jane
label: Associated Name
content: Kuemerle, Martin
notes: label: Description
content: The form of these obstetrical forceps was associated with Hugh Lenox Hodge (1796-1873), professor of obstetrics at the University of Pennsylvania. The "KUEMERLE" inscription refers to Martin Kuemerle, a manufacturer of surgical pumps and syringes in Philadelphia from 1838 to 1860, or to his son, John F. Kuemerle, who managed the firm in the 1860s. These forceps belonged to Dr. Jane Blake Fernald (1835-1871). As Nancy Jane Blake, she earned a medical degree from the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1861.
label: Description
content: Ref: Hugh Lenox Hodge, The Principles and Practice of Obstetrics (Philadelphia, 1864).
label: Description
content: George Tiemann & Co., Armamentarium Chirurgicum (New York, 1879), p. 103.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Women's History
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Douglass Adams
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2004.0224.01
label: catalog number
content: 2004.0224.01
label: accession number
content: 2004.0224
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Obsetrical Forceps
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4.6 cm x 10.7 cm x 43.5 cm; 1 13/16 in x 4 3/16 in x 17 1/8 in