Anesthesia Facemask
notes: label: Description
content: Sidney Yankauer (1872-1932)—an ear, nose and throat doctor who practiced at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York—introduced a wire-mesh anesthesia mask around 1904. This example, suitable for use with ether or chloroform, was made by Reed & Barton, an American silversmith firm that began in business as such in 1824.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Dr. S. Yankauer Dies At Age of 50,” New York Times (Aug. 28, 1932), p. 25.
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: 1988.0342.02
label: catalog number
content: 1988.0342.02
label: accession number
content: 1988.0342
objectType: label: Object Name
content: anesthesia
label: Object Name
content: inhaler
label: Object Name
content: inhaler, facemask
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: chrome plated stainless steel (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 3/8 in x 3 1/8 in x 5 3/4 in; 6.0325 cm x 7.9375 cm x 14.605 cm