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Object Type: Vaginal Speculum
Set Name: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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Vaginal Speculum
ID Number
MG.302606.017
catalog number
M-14146
accession number
302606
catalog number
302606.017
Description
John Byrne (1825-1902), a gynecologist from Ireland who practiced in New York, introduced the Byrne vaginal speculum in 1871.
Ref: John Byrne, Clinical Notes on the Electric Cautery in Uterine Surgery (New York, 1873).
“Obituary. Dr. John Byrne,” New York Tribune (Oct. 3, 1902), p. 14.
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