Tourniquet
date: label: date made
content: after 12-16-1862
name: label: maker
content: Dunton, Jacob
notes: label: Description
content: Tourniquet devised by Jacob Dunton (1835-1897), a graduate of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy with several patents to his name.
label: Description
content: Ref: Jacob Dunton, “Improvement in Tourniquets,” U.S. Patent 37,156 (Dec. 16, 1862).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Surgery
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Charles Bremner Hogg Jackson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1980.0399.0077
label: catalog number
content: 1980.0399.0077
label: accession number
content: 1980.0399
objectType: label: Object Name
content: tourniquet
label: Object Name
content: surgical instrument
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3.9 cm x 41.5 cm x .1 cm; 1 17/32 in x 16 11/32 in x 1/32 in
label: Measurements
content: overall, unfolded: 1 1/2 in x 15 5/8 in x 1 1/2 in; 3.81 cm x 39.6875 cm x 3.81 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall,: 1 1/2 in x 8 in x 1 1/2 in; 3.81 cm x 20.32 cm x 3.81 cm