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  • Title: [The inventors of the obstetric forceps and the obstetric lever].
    Author: Thiery M.
    Journal: Verh K Acad Geneeskd Belg; 1992; 54(1):45-53; discussion 54-5. PubMed ID: 1636321.
    Abstract:
    A multiple lineage is proposed for the invention of the obstetric forceps. Having been conceived by a member of the Chamberlen family in fifteenth- or seventeenth-century England, the instrument seems to have been reinvented in Flanders by Jan Palfyn and in Holland by Rogier Roonhuyse. Later, Roonhuyse invented a more effective instrument for coping with the impacted head: the obstetric lever. Palfyn's "Iron Hands" inspired Dussé to produce the "French" forceps which bears his name.
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