M0019954EA: French Levret II type obstetrical forceps, late 18th century

Previous title, replaced July 2022: French obstetrical forceps, late 18thC - early 19thC

Photograph of a pair of obstetrical forceps, a version of the Levret type II forceps. They were acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum at an unknown point and given accession number A500328. Related images: M0019954EB

September-December 1964

1 photograph sheet film negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession index card for the item: A500328

Copyright is held by Wellcome Collection

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2022.

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