Obstetrical Forceps
notes: label: Description
content: Christian Kielland (1871-1941), a Norwegian obstetrician, described his eponymous forceps suitable for rotational assisted vaginal delivery at a meeting of the surgical society of Kristiania, in 1908. This steel example is of that type.
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: 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.302606.074
label: accession number
content: 302606
label: catalog number
content: 302606.074
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Forceps, Obstetrical, Kielland
label: Object Name
content: obstetrical forceps
label: Object Name
content: forceps, obstetrical
label: Other Terms
content: Forceps, Obstetrical, Kielland; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/4 in x 16 in x 3 1/4 in; 5.715 cm x 40.64 cm x 8.255 cm