Uterine Dilator
name: label: maker
content: J. Sklar Manufacturing Co.
notes: label: Description
content: The Wylie uterine dilator was devised by Walker Gill Wylie (1848-1923), a professor of gynecology in the New York Polyclinic Hospital.
label: Description
content: Ref: George Tiemann & Co., American Armamentarium Chirugicum (New York, 1879), p. 78.
label: Description
content: “Originator of Hospital Sanitation,” The New Broadway Magazine (Aug. 1, 1908), p. 250.
place: label: place made
content: United States
topic: label: Subject
content: Women's Health
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
label: Exhibition
content: Artifact Wall
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Josephine B. Carpenter and Walter L. Boyd
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2000.0223.06.33
label: accession number
content: 2000.0223
label: catalog number
content: 2000.0223.06.33
objectType: label: Object Name
content: dilator
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: stainless steel (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 31 cm x 9 cm; 12 3/16 in x 3 9/16 in