Uterine Curette
date: label: date made
content: 1897
notes: label: Description
content: Uterine curette with inscriptions that read "ST CYRS" and "11294" and "CAN. PAT. Sept. 9, 97" and "U.S. PAT XXXX X 97." Emil St. Cyr, Jr. (1865-1942) was a physician affiliated with the Rush Medical School in Chicago.
label: Description
content: Ref: Emelien St. Cyr, Jr., “Curette,” U.S. Patent 584,407 (June 15, 1897).
label: Description
content: “Dr. Emil D. St. Cyr,” Chicago Tribune (Aug. 27, 1942), p. 24.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Women's Health
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Mr. Calvert L. Richardson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-14121
label: catalog number
content: M-14121
label: accession number
content: 297970
objectType: label: Object Name
content: curette
label: Other Terms
content: Surgery
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 1/2 in x 13/16 in x 13/16 in; 29.21 cm x 2.06375 cm x 2.06375 cm