Hirtz Compass Localizing Device
date: label: date made
content: ca 1916
name: label: maker
content: Gaiffe, Ladislas Adolphe
notes: label: Description
content: Instrument designed for locating bullets and other foreign material in bodies. An inscription on the lid of the box reads “ETABLISSEMENTS GAIFFE / COMPASS DE MR LE MEDECIN PRINCIPAL HIRTZ / POUR LA RECHERCHE DES PROJECTILES.” The form was invented in 1907 by E. J. Hirtz, a French medical officer and head of physiotherapy at a military hospital, and widely used during World War I. Ladislas Adolphe Gaiffe (1832-1887) was an important electrical instrument maker in Paris who began in business in 1856. He was succeeded by his son, G. Gaiffe. By the 1920, the firm was trading as Etablissements Gaiffe-Gallot & Pilon.
label: Description
content: Ref: L. Ombrédanne and R. Ledoux-Lebard, Localization and Extraction of Projectiles (London, 1918), p. 214.
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
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.315231.01
label: catalog number
content: 315231.01
label: accession number
content: 218475
objectType: label: Object Name
content: localization apparatus, x-ray
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal; cloth; wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/2 in x 17 in x 13 in; 8.89 cm x 43.18 cm x 33.02 cm