Pessary
notes: label: Description
content: Clear pessary in a cardboard box with “GELLHORN PESSARY / Crystal Clear Plastic” and “GRAHAM-FIELD, NEW HYDE PARK, N.Y.” and “GRAFCO PRODUCTS” inscriptions. George Gellhorn (1870-1936) was a German gynecologist and social reformer who moved to St. Louis in 1899. He daughter Martha was married to Ernest Hemingway.
label: Description
content: Ref: G. Gellhorn, ‘A new pessary for the treatment of inoperable prolapse of the uterus,” American Journal of Obstet Gynecol 29 (1935): 737.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New Hyde Park
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Dr. Steven Radoff
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1993.0014.08
label: catalog number
content: 1993.0014.08
label: accession number
content: 1993.0014
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Pessary
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 8.5 cm x 5.5 cm x 8.4 cm; 3 3/8 in x 2 3/16 in x 3 5/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall, cardbozrd box: 2 1/4 in x 3 1/4 in x 3 1/2 in; 5.715 cm x 8.255 cm x 8.89 cm