Obstetrical Forceps
name: label: maker
content: F Arnold and Son
notes: label: Description
content: The “F. ARNOLD & SON / BALT” inscription on these obstetrical forceps is that of a surgical instrument firm in Baltimore in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. The form was associated with Gunning S. Bedford (1806-1870), an American medical writer and teacher. 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.302606.152
label: accession number
content: 302606
label: catalog number
content: 302606.152
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Forceps
label: Object Name
content: obstetrical forceps
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood, ebony (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 48 cm x 8 cm x 7.7 cm; 18 7/8 in x 3 1/8 in x 3 1/16 in