Uterine Elevator
notes: label: Description
content: Emil Oscar Jacob Bruno Noeggerath (1827-1895) was a physician born and educated in Bonn who moved to the United States in 1857, settled in New York City, and became a founder of the American Gynecological Society and of the New York Obstetrical Society. This example of Noeggerath’s uterine elevator has a wooden handle.
label: Description
content: Ref: E. Noeggerath, “A Modification of the Uterine Elevator for the Treatment of Retroversion and Retroflexion,” The American Journal of Obstetrics and the Diseases of Women and Children 2 (1869): 250-257.
label: Description
content: George Tiemann & Co., The American Armamentarium Chirurgicum (New York, 1879), p. 75.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Women's Health
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.302606.126
label: accession number
content: 302606
label: catalog number
content: 302606.126
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Elevator
label: Object Name
content: elevator, uterine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 32.6 cm x 2.3 cm x 5.5 cm; 12 13/16 in x 7/8 in x 2 3/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 in x 14 in x 1 3/8 in; 2.54 cm x 35.56 cm x 3.4925 cm