Speculum

“Part of the attraction of the new technology, however, was that the physician could greatly reduce tactile contact with the patients. One of the inventors of the speculum, gynecologist James Marion Sims, asserted that a significant component of his motivation for experimenting with the new technology was simple distaste: ‘If there was anything I hated,’ he wrote in 1884, ‘it was investigating the organs of the female pelvis’” (Maines, 58-59).