Obstetrical Forceps
date: label: date made
content: ca 1900
notes: label: Description
content: This form of obstetrical forceps was favored by Barton Cooke Hirst (1861-1935), a professor of obstetrics at the University of Pennsylvania who was influential in founding the University of Pennsylvania Maternity Hospital in 1892.
label: Description
content: Ref: Barton Cooke Hirst, A Text-Book of Obstetrics (Philadelphia, 1900), p. 728. This is second edition.
label: Description
content: Barton Cooke Hirst, ed., A System of Obstetrics (Philadelphia, 1889), vol. 2, p. ?
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.316358.03
label: catalog number
content: 316358.03
label: accession number
content: 316358
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Forceps, Obstetrical, Hirst's
label: Object Name
content: obstetrical forceps
label: Other Terms
content: Forceps, Obstetrical, Hirst's; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 3/4 in x 3 1/8 in x 10 in; 6.985 cm x 7.9375 cm x 25.4 cm