Aspirator
notes: label: Description
content: An aspirator is used to remove fluids from lungs. Georges Dieulafoy (1839-1911), a physician and pathologist in Paris, invented this form in 1869. The inscription on this example reads “G. TIEMANN & Co. / MANUFACTURERS / OF / SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS / 67 CHATHAM ST. N.Y.”
label: Description
content: Ref: “Dr. Dieulafoy’s Aspirator,” Medical and Surgical Reporter 29 (1873): 199-202.
label: Description
content: George Tiemann & Co., The American Armamentarium Chirurgicum (New York, 1879), p. 131.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.302606.258
label: accession number
content: 302606
label: catalog number
content: 302606.258
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Case
label: Object Name
content: aspirator
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: fabric, velvet (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: green (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, nickel(?) (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 26 cm x 18 cm x 16.5 cm; 10 1/4 in x 7 1/16 in x 6 1/2 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 3/4 in x 7 1/4 in x 6 7/8 in; 27.305 cm x 18.415 cm x 17.4625 cm