Phototherapy Unit
date: label: Date made
content: 1966
notes: label: Description
content: Neonatal phototherapy unit designed by Jerold Francis Lucey (1926-2017), a professor of pediatrics at the University of Vermont College of Medicine; built by Ben Turpin at the University of Vermont in 1966; and used in the first controlled trial in 1968.
label: Description
content: Ref: Jerold Lucey, Mario Ferreiro, and Jean Hewitt, “Prevention of Hyperbilirubinemia of Prematurity by Phototherapy,” Pediatrics 41 (1968): 1047-.
label: Description
content: “Jerold Lucey, 91, Early Newborn Treatment Leader, Dies,” New York Times (Dec. 28, 2017), p. B12.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Vermont, Burlington
label: location of prior holder
content: United States: Vermont
label: location of prior holder
content: United States: Vermont, Burlington
label: location of prior holder
content: United States: Vermont, Burlington, Mary Fletcher Hospital
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Jerold F. Lucey, M.D.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1985.0163.01
label: accession number
content: 1985.0163
label: catalog number
content: 1985.0163.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Phototherapy Unit
label: Other Terms
content: Phototherapy Unit; Medicine; Pediatrics
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: phototherapy unit: 36 in x 24 in; 91.44 cm x 60.96 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 14 1/2 in x 32 in x 29 in; 36.83 cm x 81.28 cm x 73.66 cm