Albee Electro-Operative Bone Set
notes: label: Description
content: Fred A. Albee (1876-1948) was a graduate of Bowdoin College and the Harvard Medical School who became the chief surgeon at the New York Postgraduate Medical School Clinic. In 1912 he devised a bone mill that enabled surgeons to graft bones with “breathtaking” speed. During World War I, he served as chief surgeon and director of the U.S. General Hospital No. 3 at Colonia, N.J.
label: Description
content: Ref: Kny-Schneerer, Catalogue (1915), p. 2179.
label: Description
content: Fred A. Albee, Bone Graft Surgery in Disease, Injury, and Deformity (1940).
label: Description
content: Fred A. Albee, A Surgeon’s Fight to Rebuild Men: An Autobiography (New York, 1943).
label: Description
content: “Dr. F. A. Albee Dies, Noted Surgeon, 68,” New York Times (Feb. 16, 1945), p. 23.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-10438
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content: M-10438
label: accession number
content: 249086
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bone set