Vaginal Speculum
notes: label: Description
content: Juan del Regato (1909-1999) was born in Cuba and attended medical schools in Havana and Paris. He moved to the United States in 1939 and, in 1948, became the founding director of the Penrose Cancer Institute in Colorado Springs. He also developed a speculum to facilitate transvaginal roentgen therapy for cancer of the cervix. This set of ten specula is of that sort. The inscription on the case reads “REGATO VAGINAL SPECULA / MANUFACTURED BY F. R. MACHINE WORKS LONG ISLAND CITY 1. N.Y.”
label: Description
content: Ref: “Juan del Regato, 90, an Expert In Radiation Therapy For Cancer,” <i>New York Times</i> (June 22, 1999), p. B8.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Women's Health
label: Subject
content: Cuban Americans
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Cancer
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content: Cancer: Treatment
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1984.0702.02
label: accession number
content: 1984.0702
label: catalog number
content: 1984.0702.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: speculum
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/2 in x 22 3/4 in x 12 1/8 in; 11.43 cm x 57.785 cm x 30.7975 cm