Sierra Sacramento Valley Museum of Medical History

Display Case 10
Surgical Instruments

Urethral Sounds/Dilators

Used for instrumentation of and dilation of the urethra (the outlet tube from the urinary bladder). Before penicillin was available, strictures of the urethra were not uncommon from gonorrhea.
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Urethral Sounds

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