Rectal Speculum
name: label: maker
content: Brinkerhoff, Alexander W.
notes: label: Description
content: Patent model for Alexander W. Brinkerhoff, “Rectal Speculum,” U.S. Patent 224,991 (March 2, 1880). Brinkerhoff (1821-1887) was an inventive entrepreneur in Upper Sandusky, Ohio.
label: Description
content: Ref: Alexander W. Brinkerhoff, Diseases of the Rectum and New Method of Rectal Treatment (Columbus, Ohio, 1881).
label: Description
content: Jacob Dissinger Albright, A Practical Treatise on Rectal Diseases (Philadelphia, 1909), p. 65.
label: Description
content: Joe Terry, “I’ll take Patent Potpourri for a Thousand, Alex,” Bottles and Extras (Spring 2006): 58-62.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Patent Models
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: MG.M-04325
label: catalog number
content: M-04325
label: patent number
content: 224,991
label: accession number
content: 89797
objectType: label: Object Name
content: speculum, rectal
label: Other Terms
content: Surgery
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 3/4 in x 5 7/8 in x 2 3/4 in; 4.445 cm x 14.9225 cm x 6.985 cm
label: Measurements
content: one part: 5 3/4 in x 1 9/16 in x 1 1/4 in; 14.605 cm x 3.96875 cm x 3.175 cm
label: Measurements
content: second part: 4 15/16 in x 5/8 in x 1 in; 12.54125 cm x 1.5875 cm x 2.54 cm