Citations:labimeter

English citations of labimeter

• 1785, John Aitken, “Puerperal Pathology”, in Principles of Midwifery, or Puerperal Medicine, Second edition, Edinburgh: Sold at the Edinburgh Lying-in Hospital […], page 92:

  [footnote:] † Stein’s Opera. This ingenious author calls the inſtrument labimeter. I have taken the liberty to call it cephalometer, as being expreſſive of its uſe.

• 1929, Kedarnath Das, Obstetric Forceps: Its History And Evolution, Calcutta: The Art Press, pages 251–252:

  J. D. Busch, Professor at Marburg, introduced a forceps, of which the branches are longer than those adopted by Smellie. The handles have wood on the outside and a labimeter is attached to the lower extremities. The hook instead of being at the lower end of the instrument, is placed, below the articulation.

• 2000, Bryan Hibbard, The Obstetrician's Armamentarium: Historical Obstetric Instruments and Their Inventors, San Anselmo, Ca.: Norman Publishing, →ISBN, page 75:

  J. D. Busch (1801–1802) added a labimeter to his earlier forceps, described previously (page 72) and this pair was illustrated, together with nine other forceps (by other inventors) incorporating labimeters, in his son’s Atlas (D. W. H. Busch, 1841) (Figure 5.27).