Obstetrical Forceps
name: label: maker
content: Willms
notes: label: Description
content: The form of these forceps was associated with Gunning S. Bedford (1806-1870), an American medical writer and teacher. This example was made by Willms in Baltimore. The handle is ebony.
label: Description
content: Ref. Gunning S. Bedford, The Principles and Practice of Obstetrics (New York, 1863), pp. 578-579.
label: Description
content: George Tiemann & Co., Armamentarium Chirurgicum (New York, 1879), p. 105.
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.302606.094
label: accession number
content: 302606
label: catalog number
content: 302606.094
objectType: label: Object Name
content: obstetrical forceps
label: Object Name
content: forceps, obstetrical
label: Other Terms
content: Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/2 in x 15 3/4 in x 3 1/4 in; 6.35 cm x 40.005 cm x 8.255 cm