M0019322: Two three-bladed vaginal specula, 17th and 19th century

Date:
January 1963
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WT/D/1/20/1/172/8
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M0019322: Two three-bladed vaginal specula, 17th and 19th century. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced July 2022: Obstetrics: specula

Description

Photograph of two three-bladed vaginal specula. The first is 17th century and worked by a cog-wheel. It was purchased in Paris by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1928 and accessioned in 1936 (accession number R4479/1936). The other is from c.1823 by Weiss, London with a handle to rotate and open the blades. It was acquired by the Museum at an unknown point.

Publication/Creation

January 1963

Physical description

1 photograph sheet film negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides an entry for one of the items: R4479/1936

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Copyright is held by Wellcome Collection

Notes

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2022.

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