Teaching model, female reproduction organs, 1940s-1950s

Historical information

Originally this teaching model belonged to Prince Henry's hospital library and was transferred to the Monash Medical Centre, Clayton in the 1970s by Sister Gertrude Berger, a famous nurse-educator, who is best known for her work leading up to the transfer of nursing education in Victoria from hospitals to universities in 1986.Gerty (as she was known in the School of Nursing) bought them in Europe in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

Physical description

Teaching model- 3D Female Reproduction Organs Painted and numbered plastic mould, showing vagina and one ovary and fallopian tube in cross-section. The model is mounted on a metallic grey painted timber panel. Manufacturer Adam Rouilly, London. label on lower right.]. Monash Medical Centre Clayton.

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