Object Details
- Description
- This form of obstetrical forceps was associated with Edward Warren Sawyer (1848-1897), a lecturer on obstetrics and the diseases of children at the Rush Medical College in Chicago.
- Ref: Edward Warren Sawyer, “A New Obstetric Forceps,” Chicago Medical Journal and Examiner 33 (1876): 46-48.
- George Tiemann & Co., Armamentarium Chirurgicum (New York, 1879), Supplement p. 1.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- date made
- ca 1885
- Credit Line
- from Edgar Haybeck, M.D., Obstetric & Gynecology, Centreal Medico-Surgical Clinic, West Allis WI
- Measurements
- overall: 3 1/2 in x 3 1/4 in x 10 3/8 in; 8.89 cm x 8.255 cm x 26.3525 cm
- Object Name
- Forceps, Obstetrical, Outlet
- obstetrical forceps
- Other Terms
- Forceps, Obstetrical, Outlet; Medicine
