Hegar dilators
Place where the object is located
Museum for the History of Medicine, School of Medicine, A.U.Th., Thessaloniki, Greece
Story of the object
Hegar dilators were developed and introduced by Alfred Hegar in 1879. They are a set of metal rods of increasing diameters, from a few millimeters up to 26 millimeters. The rods are round, slightly curved, and have a conal tip while the other end is flattened for handling. Hegar dilators are marked with a Hegar number equivalent to 0.5 millimeters. These dilators were of gynaecological use.
Unit of the Educational Material connected (5 - 1)
Label
Item 279 (1-12). The item was donated to the Museum for the History of Medicine, AUTH, by Emeritus Prof. of Anatomy and gynaecologist Dr. Paris Xepoulias. They were used after the 1950s.
