Obstetrical Forceps
date: label: date made
content: ca 1880
notes: label: Description
content: This type of obstetrical forceps, with a screw in the handle, was introduced by George Thomson Elliot (1827-1871), a New York obstetrician.
label: Description
content: Ref: George T. Elliott, “Description of a New Midwifery Forceps, Having a Sliding Pivot to prevent Compression of the Foetal Head,” New York Journal of Medicine 5 (1853): 160-163.
label: Description
content: George Tiemann & Co., Armamentarium Chirurgicum (New York, 1879), p. 104.
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: from Edgar Haybeck, M.D., Obstetric & Gynecology, Centreal Medico-Surgical Clinic, West Allis WI
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.316358.23
label: catalog number
content: 316358.23
label: accession number
content: 316358
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Forceps, Obstetrical, Elliot
label: Object Name
content: obstetrical forceps
label: Other Terms
content: Forceps, Obstetrical, Elliot; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/2 in x 3 1/4 in x 16 in; 6.35 cm x 8.255 cm x 40.64 cm