Humerus Splint
name: label: maker
content: Lee
notes: label: Description
content: Perforated aluminum splint with paper label that reads “LEVIS’S METALLIC SPLINT / No. 3 / HUMERUS. / FOR ADULTS.” An inscription on the inside of the splint reads “LEE’S PATENT / July 5, 1887 / OCT. 30TH, 1888.” Levis’s splints were designed by (or perhaps to the specifications of) Richard Joseph Levis (1827-1890), a graduate of Jefferson Medical College who practiced medicine and surgery in Philadelphia. The referenced patents were issued to John Elwood Lee (1860-1914), a manufacturer in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania.
label: Description
content: Ref: J. Elwood Lee, “Manufacture of Splints,” U.S. Patent 366,120 (July 5, 1887).
label: Description
content: John Elwood Lee, “Metallic Splint,” U.S. Patent 392,157 (Oct. 30, 1888).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Conshohocken
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Marion Huber
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-12749
label: catalog number
content: M-12749
label: accession number
content: 315330
objectType: label: Object Name
content: splints
label: Other Terms
content: Medicine