Milwaukee Back Brace
date: label: date made
content: 1975
notes: label: Description
content: Drs. Walter Blount and Albert Schmidt, at the Medical College of Wisconsin and Milwaukee's Children's Hospital, developed the Milwaukee Brace in 1946. For several decades, the form was widely used for treating scoliosis. This example was made for the donor in 1975.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine, Prostheses
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Annemarie B. Quigley
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1977.1076.01
label: accession number
content: 1977.1076
label: catalog number
content: 1977.1076.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Back Brace
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: leather (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: fabric (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 21 in x 12 3/8 in x 8 1/2 in; 53.34 cm x 31.4325 cm x 21.59 cm