Rush Pin
date: label: date made
content: 1948
label: date(s) of previous ownership
content: 1985 11 25
notes: label: Description
content: Leslie Vaughn Rush (1905-1987) was a surgeon in Meridian, Miss. who joined his father’s hospital, Rush Infirmary, in 1927. In 1936 he invented an orthopedic pin for pinning bone fractures. Dr. Rush and his wife formed the Berivon Co. in 1948, deriving the term from their two names (Beryl and Vaughn), and began manufacturing various orthopedic pins. That firm donated this pin to the Smithsonian in 1986. It is a prototype orthopedic pin made in 1948.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: RUSH/berivon, inc.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0125.01
label: accession number
content: 1986.0125
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0125.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Pin, Orthopedic
label: Other Terms
content: Pin, Orthopedic; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/4 in x 3/4 in x 9 in; 1.905 cm x 1.905 cm x 22.86 cm