Bougie
notes: label: Description
content: A bougie is a thin, flexible instrument for exploring or dilating a passage of the body. This example was designed for urethrotomy. The “C. W. Alban” inscription refers to a surgical supply firm established by Charles Willis Alban in St. Louis, ca. 1886.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Donated by St. Louis Medical Society through Harry O. Cole & Gordon R. Garrett
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1977.0808.045
label: accession number
content: 1977.0808
label: catalog number
content: 1977.0808.045
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bougies
label: Other Terms
content: Surgery
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 1/16 in x 7/16 in x 5/16 in; 25.55875 cm x 1.11125 cm x .79375 cm