Obstetrical Forceps
name: label: maker
content: Willms
notes: label: Description
content: In 1885, Leonard Ernest Neale (1859-1934), Professor of Obstetrics at the University of Maryland Medical School, described a modification of the action traction forceps that had been made by Willms. This example is of that sort.
label: Description
content: Ref: L. E. Neale, “An Obstetric Forceps,” The American Journal of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children 9 (1885): 938-1001.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Maryland, Baltimore
topic: label: Subject
content: Women's Health
setName: label: See more items in
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.302606.092
label: accession number
content: 302606
label: catalog number
content: 302606.092
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Forceps, Obstetrical, Neil's
label: Object Name
content: obstetrical forceps
label: Object Name
content: forceps, obstetrical
label: Other Terms
content: Forceps, Obstetrical, Neil's; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 in x 7 in x 14 1/2 in; 7.62 cm x 17.78 cm x 36.83 cm