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A Classical Wooden Vaginal Speculum Mentioned in Old Medical Manuscripts
Selim Kadıoğlu1, Oya Ögenler2, İlter Uzel3
1Department of History of Medicine and Medical Ethics, Medical School, Çukurova University, Adana, Turkey.
Archives of Iranian Medicine
|March 14, 2017
Abstract:
The subject of this paper is the story of an ancient medical instrument. This instrument is a wooden vaginal speculum used in classical and Islamic medicine. Its drawings can be found in Abulcasis al-Zahrawi's and Şerefeddin Sabuncuoğlu's illustrated books of surgery.
