Vaginometer
notes: label: Description
content: William Henry Baker (1845-1912), a professor of gynecology at the Harvard Medical School and chief surgeon at the Women’s Free Hospital in Brookline, Mass., introduced this type of vaginometer in 1879. Early examples were made by Codman & Shurtleff.
label: Description
content: Ref: F. H. Davenport, <i>Diseases of Women</i> (Philadelphia, 1889), p. 182.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Eleanor P. Custis
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-07909
label: catalog number
content: M-07909
label: accession number
content: 223292
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pelvimeter
label: Object Name
content: vaginometer
label: Other Terms
content: Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/4 in x 5 3/4 in x 2 in; .635 cm x 14.605 cm x 5.08 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 5/8 in x 1 3/4 in x 3/16 in; 14.2875 cm x 4.445 cm x .47625 cm