Electrotherapeutic Apparatus
date: label: date made
content: ca 1920
name: label: maker
content: McIntosh Electrical Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: The McIntosh Electrical Corporation of Chicago, successor to the McIntosh Battery & Optical Co., made apparatus for physiotherapy. An inscription on the face of this high voltage, low current machine reads “THE MCINTOSH NO. 5 / POLYSINE / TRADE MARK U.S. PAT. OFF. APP. FOR / SER. NO. . . / OPERATES ON DIRECT CURRENT / MFD. BY / MCINTOSH.”
label: Description
content: Ref: J. M. Martin, Practical Electro-Therapeutics and X-Ray Therapy (St. Louis, 1912), pp. 173-177.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Modern Medicine and the Great War
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Zachary H. Wolff, Esq.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.318933.01
label: catalog number
content: 318933.01
label: serial number
content: 1033
label: accession number
content: 318933
objectType: label: Object Name
content: table plate, Faradic
label: Other Terms
content: table plate, Faradic; Diagnostic Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 1/2 in x 19 1/4 in x 20 in; 29.21 cm x 48.895 cm x 50.8 cm
label: Measurements
content: bag of attachments: 15 in x 10 3/4 in x 2 1/4 in; 38.1 cm x 27.305 cm x 5.715 cm