Artificial Breast
date: label: date made
content: ca 1841
notes: label: Description
content: Patent model for Charles M. Windship, "Breast Nipple or Lacteal or Artificial Breast," U.S. Patent 1,985 (Feb 18, 1841). A paper tag reads “A. S. & W. G. LEWIS / AGENTS FOR THE SALE OF / THE PATENT LACTEAL, / IMPROVED NURSING BOTTLE / NOS. 27 & 28 / SOUTH MARKET STREET, BOSTON.” Windship was a graduate of the Harvard Medical School who practiced medicine in Roxbury, Mass.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-04287
label: catalog number
content: M-04287
label: accession number
content: 89797
label: patent number
content: 1,985
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Infant Feeder
label: Object Name
content: infant feeder, patent model
label: Object Name
content: infant feeder
label: Object Name
content: patent model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/2 in x 5 in; 6.35 cm x 12.7 cm