Cranioclast
notes: label: Description
content: A cranioclast is designed to crush the head of a fetus, to facilitate delivery in difficult cases. James Young Simpson (1811-1870), the eminent Scottish obstetrician who introduced an obstetrical forceps and introduced the use of ether in childbirth, promoted the form.
label: Description
content: Ref: J. Y. Simpson, Clinical Lectures on Diseases of Women (Philadelphia, 1863), pp. 408-423
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
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0478.09
label: accession number
content: 1986.0478
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0478.09
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Cranioclast
label: Object Name
content: forceps, obstetrical, cranioclast
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: steel (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/2 in x 17 1/2 in x 7 1/2 in; 8.89 cm x 44.45 cm x 19.05 cm