Obstetrical Forceps
date: label: date made
content: ca 1969
notes: label: Description
content: This type of obstetrical forceps was associated with Sir James Young Simpson (1811-1870), a Scottish obstetrician. Inscriptions on this example read “SMI CHASE IN INDIA” and “STAINLESS.”
label: Description
content: Ref: James Young Simpson, “On the Mode of Application of the Long Forceps,” Edinburgh Monthly Journal of Medical Science (Sept. 1848): 193-.
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
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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.316358.42
label: catalog number
content: 316358.42
label: accession number
content: 316358
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Forceps, Obstetrical, Simpson
label: Object Name
content: obstetrical forceps
label: Other Terms
content: Forceps, Obstetrical, Simpson; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/8 in x 3 1/8 in x 14 1/4 in; 7.9375 cm x 7.9375 cm x 36.195 cm