Brush
notes: label: Description
content: George Augustus Scott (1842-1890) was a New Yorker who promoted various electric brushes, most of which had some magnetized iron in their handles. This example of his flesh brush has an “ELECTRIC / The Germ of All Life is Electricity” inscription on the back.
label: Description
content: Ref: George A. Scott, “Design for a Back of a Brush,” U.S. Design Patent 12,797 (Feb. 28, 1882).
label: Description
content: Robert K. Waits, The Medical Electricians: George A. Scott and His Victorian Cohorts in Quackery (2013).
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: 1988.0015.3
label: accession number
content: 1988.0015
label: catalog number
content: 1988.0015.3
objectType: label: Object Name
content: flesh brush
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 in x 2 5/8 in x 5 1/4 in; 5.08 cm x 6.6675 cm x 13.335 cm