Vaginal Speculum
notes: label: Description
content: Frank W. Graves (1842-1900), a physician in Woburn, Mass., introduced a new vaginal speculum, a modification of Cusco’s design, in 1878. This speculum is of that sort. The "Pat. Sept. 19, 1899" inscription refers to a modification introduced by Charles J. Pilling of Philadelphia.
label: Description
content: Ref: T. W. Graves, “A New Vaginal Speculum,” The New York Medical Journal 28 (1878): 506-507.
label: Description
content: George Tiemann & Co., The American Armamentarium Chirurgicum (New York, 1879), p. 51.
label: Description
content: Charles J. Pilling, “Design for a Supporting Fork for a Vaginal Specula,” U.S. Patent 727,464 (Sept. 19, 1899), assigned to himself and to George P. Pilling.
label: Description
content: “Dr. Frank W. Graves Dead,” Boston Globe (March 14, 1900), p. 5.
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 Eleanor P. Custis
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-07903
label: catalog number
content: M-07903
label: accession number
content: 223292
objectType: label: Object Name
content: speculum
label: Other Terms
content: Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/2 in x 2 1/4 in x 4 3/4 in; 13.97 cm x 5.715 cm x 12.065 cm