Intubation Set
date: label: date made
content: About 1900
name: label: maker
content: F. Arnold and Son
notes: label: Description
content: This set contains an introducer with a metal handle, a scale, and six intubation tubes. An oval label attached to the interior of the lid reads "F. ARNOLD & SONS / MANUFACTURERS OF / SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS / 15 S. SHARPE ST. / BALTIMORE.” The purple velvet lining in the case suggests that this set was made before the the growing concern with aseptic instruments in the early 1890s. An attached business card reads “CHARLES GETZ, M.D. / OFFICE HOURS: 8:30 TO 8:30 A.M. / 1:30 TO 3 P.M. / 7 TO 8 P.M. / 312 N. CAREY STREET.”
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Maryland, Baltimore
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of 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.302606.173
label: accession number
content: 302606
label: catalog number
content: 302606.173
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Case
label: Object Name
content: surgical set
label: Object Name
content: intubation set
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: leather (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: fabric, velvet (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brown (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, copper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 5 cm x 24 cm x 12.5 cm; 1 15/16 in x 9 7/16 in x 4 15/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 7/8 in x 9 1/2 in x 5 1/8 in; 4.7625 cm x 24.13 cm x 13.0175 cm