Improved Apparatus for Massaging the Eyes
date: label: date made
content: ca 1930
notes: label: Description
content: Binocular-shaped device with two large rubber bulbs marked: "Neu-Vita:" At one end of the device are mounted eye cups which have within a "soft vibratory plunger." The plungers are forced against the eyelids when the rubber blubs are squeezed. The other end of the device has "solid frictional massage cups" attached. The eye pieces are atached to an adjustable metal frame.
label: Description
content: Ref: Leonard Russell Lacy, British patent 363,101 (December 17, 1931).
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: 1977.0110.01
label: accession number
content: 1977.0110
label: catalog number
content: 1977.0110.01
label: patent number
content: 363101
objectType: label: Object Name
content: massager, eye
label: Other Terms
content: Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 3/8 in x 5 1/4 in x 5 1/2 in; 8.5725 cm x 13.335 cm x 13.97 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 3/4 in x 5 1/2 in x 5 3/8 in; 6.985 cm x 13.97 cm x 13.6525 cm