Uterine Dilator
notes: label: Description
content: Washington Atlee (1808-1878), a Philadelphia physician, described a uterine dilator of this sort in 1871.
label: Description
content: Ref: Washington Atlee, “The Uterine Dilator,” American Journal of Medical Science (1871).
label: Description
content: J. M. Toner, Biographical Sketch of Washington L. Atlee, M.D. (Lancaster, 1878).
label: Description
content: George Tiemann & Co., The American Armamentarium Chirurgicum (New York, 1879), p. 78.
label: Description
content: Charles Truax, The Mechanics of Surgery (Chicago, 1899), p. 457.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Women's Health
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Marion Huber
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-12809
label: catalog number
content: M-12809
label: accession number
content: 315330
label: accession number
content: 315330
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Dilator, Uterine
label: Object Name
content: uterine dilator
label: Other Terms
content: Dilator, Uterine; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 3/8 in x 3 3/4 in x 5/8 in; 26.3525 cm x 9.525 cm x 1.5875 cm