Rubin gynaecology test. Doctor with nurse and patient in a hospital,with the doctor carrying out a test on the female patient's fallopian tubes. This test,inflating the tubes and abdomen with a gas such as carbon dioxide,tests for infertility. Known as tubal insufflation or the Rubin test,it is named for US gynaecologist Isidor Clinton Rubin (1883-1958) who developed the test in 1919 and 1920. It was widely used in the mid-20th century,but fell out of use with the advance of laparoscopic techniques in the 1970s. Photographed at the infertility clinic at Long Island Jewish Hospital,New York,USA,on 7 December 1956 | |
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