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Set of bougies in case

HC.I.2.91

Set of urethral bougies in a stocking shaped case. The case contains no makers marks but all the bougies have the Edinburgh instrument maker 'Young Edin' inscribed, there are twelve bougies of various size and diameter. A Bougie would be introduced into the urethra to ascertain where a blockage may be or to dilate a constricted area.

Late nineteenth/early twentieth century