Object Details
- Description
- The form of these forceps was associated with Hugh Lenox Hodge (1796-1873), professor of obstetrics at the University of Pennsylvania.
- Ref: Hugh Lenox Hodge, The Principles and Practice of Obstetrics (Philadelphia, 1864).
- George Tiemann & Co., Armamentarium Chirurgicum (New York, 1879), p. 103.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- date made
- ca 1875
- Credit Line
- from Edgar Haybeck, M.D., Obstetric & Gynecology, Centreal Medico-Surgical Clinic, West Allis WI
- Measurements
- overall: 3 5/16 in x 16 in x 2 5/8 in; 8.41375 cm x 40.64 cm x 6.6675 cm
- Object Name
- Forceps, Obstetrical, Hodge
- obstetrical forceps
- Other Terms
- Forceps, Obstetrical, Hodge; Medicine
