Object Details
- Description
- Frederick C. Irving, professor of obstetrics at the Harvard Medical School and visiting obstetrician at the Boston Lying-In Hospital, introduced this type of axis traction forceps in 1915.
- Ref: Frederick C. Irving, “The Tarnier Axis Traction Rods Applied to the Simpson Obstetric Forceps,” Surgery, Gynecology, and Obstetrics 10 (1915): 734.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- date made
- ca 1915
- Credit Line
- from Edgar Haybeck, M.D., Obstetric & Gynecology, Centreal Medico-Surgical Clinic, West Allis WI
- Measurements
- overall: 14 1/2 in x 8 3/4 in x 3 1/4 in; 36.83 cm x 22.225 cm x 8.255 cm
- Object Name
- Forceps, Irving Axis Traction
- obstetrical forceps
- Other Terms
- Forceps, Irving Axis Traction; Medicine
