A Classical Wooden Vaginal Speculum Mentioned in Old Medical Manuscripts.

Selim Kadıoğlu, Oya Ögenler, İlter Uzel

Archives of Iranian Medicine 2017 March

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.

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