Rectal Speculum
date: label: Date made
content: About 1860
name: label: user
content: Blake, Nancy Jane
label: maker
content: Jacob H. Gemrig
notes: label: Description
content: Williams’ rectal speculum made by Gemrig in Philadelphia. According to the donor, this item was used by Nancy Jane Blake, M.D., an 1860 graduate of the Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania.
label: Description
content: Ref: George Tiemann & Co., Armamentarium Chirurgicum (New York, 1879), p. 125.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Douglass Adams
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2004.0224.02
label: catalog number
content: 2004.0224.02
label: accession number
content: 2004.0224
objectType: label: Object Name
content: speculum
label: Object Name
content: speculum, rectal
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 11.1 cm x 7.5 cm x 23.5 cm; 4 3/8 in x 2 15/16 in x 9 1/4 in
label: Measurements
content: overall, speculum: 2 3/4 in x 8 in x 3 1/8 in; 6.985 cm x 20.32 cm x 7.9375 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall, obturator: 1 1/8 in x 7 5/8 in; 2.8575 cm x 19.3675 cm