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French Vaginal Speculum in Boxwood

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French Vaginal Speculum in Boxwood

 
A 19th century boxwood French vaginal speculum. The central obturator is also made entirely from wood. This relatively wide bore tubular speculum could also have been used to introduce leeches to the cervix (for amenorrhoea). In the first half of the 19th century France used 100 million leeches and despite leech farming in Germany and France they were nearly made extinct and had to be imported from North America and Russia