Rectal Irrigator
notes: label: Description
content: Irrigator associated with William Bodenhamer (1808-1905), an American physician who specialized in diseases of the rectum.
label: Description
content: Ref: William Bodenhamer, A Practical Treatise on the Aetiology, Pathology and Treatment of the Congenital Malformations of the Rectum and Anus (New York, 1860).
label: Description
content: William Bodenhamer, The Physical Examination of the Rectum and Anus (New York, 1870).
label: Description
content: George Tiemann & Co., The American Armamentarium Chirurgicum (New York, 1879), p. 118.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Donated by St. Louis Medical Society through Harry O. Cole & Gordon R. Garrett
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1977.0808.033
label: accession number
content: 1977.0808
label: catalog number
content: 1977.0808.033
objectType: label: Object Name
content: irrigator
label: Other Terms
content: Surgery
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 7/8 in x 1 1/2 in x 1 in; 12.3825 cm x 3.81 cm x 2.54 cm