Aspirator
name: label: maker
content: Codman & Shurtleff, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: Georges Dieulafoy (1839-1911), a French physician and pathologist, devised an aspirator, for drawing out and removing substances from the body, in 1869. The label in the lid of the wooden box containing this example reads “CODMAN & SHURTLEFF / SURGICAL & / DENTAL INSTRUMENTS / 13 TREMONT ST. / BOSTON.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Codman & Shurtleff ad for “PNEUMATIC ASPIRATION AFTER THE MANNER OF DIEULAFOY,” in Baltimore Physician and Surgeon 2 (1874).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.302606.717
label: accession number
content: 302606
label: catalog number
content: 302606.717
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Case
label: Object Name
content: aspirating set
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: fabric, velvet (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, white (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: purple (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (objects material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (objects material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (objects material)
label: Measurements
content: box: 4 in x 9 in x 6 in; 10.16 cm x 22.86 cm x 15.24 cm