08-21-2009, 07:13 AM
Can we refocus from the interesting impalement sidestep please.
There must be a medical scholar amongst us who can shed some light on this? We have had medical doctors amongst our audience who all perfectly wel lunderstand the purpose of the speculum, i.e. removing genital warts and such or even easing a curetting procedure, but none could provide a plausible explanation for the handles. Sometimes these are quite flimsy so that would exclude putting pressure or torque on them. Nor do they provide a steady working platform for the hands. So what is there purpose?
There must be a medical scholar amongst us who can shed some light on this? We have had medical doctors amongst our audience who all perfectly wel lunderstand the purpose of the speculum, i.e. removing genital warts and such or even easing a curetting procedure, but none could provide a plausible explanation for the handles. Sometimes these are quite flimsy so that would exclude putting pressure or torque on them. Nor do they provide a steady working platform for the hands. So what is there purpose?
Paul Karremans
Chairman and founding member
Member in the Order of Orange-Nassau, awarded for services to Roman Living History in the Netherlands
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.gemina.nl">http://www.gemina.nl
est.1987
Chairman and founding member
Member in the Order of Orange-Nassau, awarded for services to Roman Living History in the Netherlands
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.gemina.nl">http://www.gemina.nl
est.1987
