Ankle Splint
notes: label: Description
content: Sir Percival Pott (1714-1788) was an English surgeon who suffered a compound fracture of an ankle in 1756, and whose name is now applied that part of the body. This wire mesh Potts ankle splint was made by the DePuy Manufacturing Company, a firm established in Warsaw, Ind., in 1895.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of William P. Evans
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-07294.01
label: accession number
content: 217731
label: catalog number
content: M-07294.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Splint, Foot and Calf
label: Object Name
content: splint, ankle
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 17 in x 5 5/8 in x 7 1/4 in; 43.18 cm x 14.2875 cm x 18.415 cm