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Description:

Washington Atlee (1808-1878), a Philadelphia physician, described a uterine dilator of this sort in 1871.

Ref: Washington Atlee, “The Uterine Dilator,” American Journal of Medical Science (1871).

J. M. Toner, Biographical Sketch of Washington L. Atlee, M.D. (Lancaster, 1878).

George Tiemann & Co., The American Armamentarium Chirurgicum (New York, 1879), p. 78.

Charles Truax, The Mechanics of Surgery (Chicago, 1899), p. 457.

Location: Currently not on view

Subject: Women's Health

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Credit Line: Gift of Marion Huber

Data Source: National Museum of American History

Id Number: MG.M-12809Catalog Number: M-12809Accession Number: 315330315330

Object Name: Dilator, Uterineuterine dilatorOther Terms: Dilator, Uterine; Medicine

Measurements: overall: 10 3/8 in x 3 3/4 in x 5/8 in; 26.3525 cm x 9.525 cm x 1.5875 cm

Metadata Usage: CC0

Guid: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-7b7f-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record Id: nmah_726725

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