Intraocular Lens
name: label: maker
content: McGhan Medical Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: An inscription on the cardboard package reads in part “IMPLENS / SAMPLE / INTRAOCULAR / LENS” and “Mcghan Medical Corporation, 700 Ward Drive, Santa Barbara, Ca. 93111.” This is a style 53. Donald McGhan (b. 1934) established McGhan Medical in 1972. The firm was incorporated in 1974 and acquired by 3M in 1977. Its first product was a breast implant that used silicone in fluid gel form, rather than the rubberier version used in earlier implants.
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: 1985.0419.01
label: catalog number
content: 1985.0419.01
label: accession number
content: 1985.0419
objectType: label: Object Name
content: intraocular lens
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/4 in x 2 7/8 in x 1 1/4 in; 13.335 cm x 7.3025 cm x 3.175 cm