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Artifact Name	Uterine Gauze Packer
Type of Object	Packer
Date of Manufacture	1950-1965
Time Period	Twentieth century
Dimensions	1.5 cm. x 32.2 cm. x 2.6 cm.
Physical Details	Uterine gauze packer made of nickel-plated brass. The device is in two component pieces. A thin (2mm diameter) rod with a distal two-pronged fork and a proximal thumb ring fits in the top of a slightly wider tube, with an hourglass shaped grip for two fingers to hold it steady while inserting the pronged piece.
Medical Subject	Delivery, Obstetric -- instrumentation
Accession Number	1984.39.8
Type	Stillimage
Format	image/jp2
Rights Management	© VCU. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 Acknowledgement of the Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is required.
Collection	Medical Artifacts Collection
Contributor	Tompkins-McCaw Library. Special Collections & Archives
Digital Publisher	VCU Libraries
Local genre	medical artifact

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