Bakelite Rectal Dilator
notes: label: Description
content: Bakelite rectal dilator with a “Young’s Dilator 3” inscription. Frank E. Young was a physician in Canton, Ohio, who claimed that this dilator would “restore circulation and health”
label: Description
content: Ref: Frank E. Young, “Design for a Rectal Dilator,” Design Patent #21,551 (May 17, 1892).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of M. E. Vaill
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1994.3122.05
label: nonaccession number
content: 1994.3122
label: catalog number
content: 1994.3122.05
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Dilator
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: bakelite (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8.6 cm x 4.2 cm; 3 3/8 in x 1 5/8 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/2 in x 1 5/8 in; 8.89 cm x 4.1275 cm