Object Details
- Description
- This type of obstetrical forceps, with a screw in the handle, was introduced by George Thomson Elliot (1827-1871), a New York obstetrician.
- 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.
- George Tiemann & Co., Armamentarium Chirurgicum (New York, 1879), p. 104.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- Credit Line
- The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland
- Measurements
- overall: 2 3/4 in x 15 1/4 in x 3 1/8 in; 6.985 cm x 38.735 cm x 7.9375 cm
- Object Name
- Forceps, Obstetrical, Elliott
- obstetrical forceps
- forceps, obstetrical
- Other Terms
- Forceps, Obstetrical, Elliott; Medicine
