Vaginal Electrode
name: label: maker
content: Frank S. Betz Company
notes: label: Description
content: Goldspohn's copper ball vaginal electrode was introduced by Albert Goldspohn (1851-1929), a Chicago surgeon. The "Betz" inscription on the handle of this example that of the Frank S. Betz Co., a medical apparatus firm formed in Chicago in 1895.
label: Description
content: Ref: Gustavus M. Blech, The Practitioner’s Guide to the Diagnosis and Treatment of Diseases of Women (Chicago, 1903), p. 87.
label: Description
content: The Kny-Scheerer Co., Illustrations of Surgical Instruments of Superior Quality (New York, 1915), p. 5216.
label: Description
content: “Dr. Goldspohn, Early Chicago Surgeon, Dies,” Chicago Tribune (Sept. 2, 1929), p. 24.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Eleanor P. Custis
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-07973
label: catalog number
content: M-07973
label: accession number
content: 223292
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Electrode
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, copper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber, hard(?) (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 7/8 in x 2 in x 3/4 in; 27.6225 cm x 5.08 cm x 1.905 cm