Women's medical history: Forceps -- Why a simple lifesaving object was shrouded in mystery for many years [audio 4min]

All prospective mothers want a straight-forward delivery and hope to avoid the use of forceps. However, when babies get stuck in the birth canal during childbirth, forceps have undoubtedly saved the lives of many thousands of women. Their invention was shrouded in secrecy as presenter Claudia Hammond discovered when she joined the medical historian Ornella Moscucci and Dr Lesley Hall, archivist at London's Wellcome Library. They met in the Medicine Man exhibition at the Wellcome Collection in London.