Prostatic Retractor
notes: label: Description
content: Hugh Hampton Young (1870-1945), a graduate of the University of Virginia who served on the faculty at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, introduced this type of prostatic retractor in 1902.
label: Description
content: Ref: Hugh Hampton Young, “Cancer of the Prostate,” Annals of Surgery 50 (1909): 1144-1233.
label: Description
content: Henry H. Morton, Genitourinary Diseases and Syphilis (Philadelphia, 1912), p. 332.
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: 1977.0808.038
label: accession number
content: 1977.0808
label: catalog number
content: 1977.0808.038
objectType: label: Object Name
content: retractor
label: Object Name
content: surgical instrument
label: Other Terms
content: Surgery
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/2 in x 8 1/2 in x 1 3/4 in; 3.81 cm x 21.59 cm x 4.445 cm