Hysteroscope, rigid, Fourestier-Glandu-Vulmiere type, with camera attachment, France, 1958-1965

Physicians ‘saw’ into the body using a hysteroscope. A rigid tube is passed into the body to 'see' inside the uterus. This example incorporated a quartz rod within the tube. Light was transmitted by an internal reflection in the rod. This meant the lens systems of earlier bronchoscopes were discarded. Illumination was good enough for a specially mounted camera to take very clear photographs of the interior of the uterus.