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
- date made
- ca 1910
- Credit Line
- from Edgar Haybeck, M.D., Obstetric & Gynecology, Centreal Medico-Surgical Clinic, West Allis WI
- Measurements
- overall: 2 1/4 in x 2 3/4 in x 11 3/4 in; 5.715 cm x 6.985 cm x 29.845 cm
- Object Name
- Forceps, Obstetrical, Schwartz
- obstetrical forceps
- Other Terms
- Forceps, Obstetrical, Schwartz; Medicine
