Fischer Quartz Ulatraviolet Unit
date: label: Date made
content: C. 1920s
label: Date made
content: c. 1922
name: label: maker
content: Fitzgerald Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description
content: This seems to be an example of the <i>Complete Physician’s Portable High Frequency and Violet Ray Generator</i> made and sold by H. G. Fischer & Company of Chicago. Herman G. Fischer (1879-1950), the founder of the firm, was a leader for 40 years in the manufacture of x-ray equipment.
label: Description
content: Ref: “H. G. Fischer, 71, Dies; Leader in X-Ray Industry,” <i>Chicago Daily Tribune</i> (March 13, 1950), p. C8.
label: Description
content: <i>Fischer’s Magazine</i>, “devoted to the advancement of the Science of Electro-Physiotherapy and to the interests of those earnest and enlightened medical men who are practicing it.” The first issue appeared in October 1922.
label: Description
content: H. G. Fischer, <i>Diathermy Theory and Practice</i> (Chicago, 1925).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Torrington
title: label: Title
content: Violet Ray Machine
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: ZZ.RSN83538U42 DUP
label: serial number
content: 21353
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Electrotherapeutic Apparatus
label: Object Name
content: Violet Ray
label: Object Name
content: Electrotherapeutic Apparatus
label: Other Terms
content: Lamp, Electrotherapeutic; Violet Ray; Electrotherapeutic Apparatus; Electrotherapeutic Apparatus; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 19 cm x 26.2 cm x 22.2 cm; 7 1/2 in x 10 5/16 in x 8 3/4 in