Patella Splint
name: label: maker
content: Lee
notes: label: Description
content: Perforated nickel-plated splint with paper label that reads “LEVIS’S METALLIC SPLINT / NO. 8 / PATELLA. / FOR CHILDREN.” An inscription reads “LEE’S PATENT / JULY 5TH 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.
label: Description
content: Ref: John Elwood Lee (1860-1914) was a manufacturer in Conshohocken, Pa.
label: Description
content: Ref: J. Elwood Lee, “Surgical Splint,” U.S. Patent 390,176 (Sept. 25, 1888), assigned to the J. Elwood Lee Company.
label: Description
content: John Elwood Lee, “Metallic Splint,” U.S. Patent 392,157 (Oct. 30, 1888).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine, Prostheses
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-12755
label: accession number
content: 315330
label: catalog number
content: M-12755
objectType: label: Object Name
content: splint, patella