Rectal Speculum
notes: label: Description
content: An anascope is used to examine the anal canal and rectum. This form was associated with Louis J. Hirschman (1878-1965), a professor of proctology at Wayne University in Detroit. The “Hartz” inscription is that of J. F. Hartz Co., a medical supply company in Detroit that was established in 1897 by Johannes Frederick Hartz (1863-1944), a German immigrant.
label: Description
content: Ref: “New Instruments and Devices,” The Detroit Medical Journal 10 (1910): 279-282.
label: Description
content: Louis J. Hirschman, Handbook of Diseases of the Rectum (St. Louis, 1909 and later).
label: Description
content: Irving I. Edgar, “Dr. Louis Jacob Hirschman,” Michigan Jewish History 20 (1980): 5-10.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1996.0290.23
label: catalog number
content: 1996.0290.23
label: accession number
content: 1996.0290
objectType: label: Object Name
content: speculum, rectal
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 7/8 in x 7 in x 2 3/4 in; 4.7625 cm x 17.78 cm x 6.985 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/2 in x 1 3/4 in x 5 1/4 in; 13.97 cm x 4.445 cm x 13.335 cm