Esophagoscope
name: label: maker
content: George P. Pilling and Son Company
notes: label: Description
content: Esophagoscope made by Pilling and equipped with a Tucker aspirating tube valve. Gabriel Tucker was a professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine who trained with Chevalier Jackson, and “was widely known for his use of the bronchoscope and as a surgeon who specialized in the removal of lung cancers.”
label: Description
content: Ref: “Gabriel Tucker, Surgeon, 77, Dies,” New York Times (April 19, 1958), p. 21.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Pilling Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-13874
label: catalog number
content: M-13874
label: accession number
content: 293245
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Esophagoscope
label: Other Terms
content: Esophagoscope; Diagnostic Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 in x 20 7/8 in x 3 3/8 in; 5.08 cm x 53.0225 cm x 8.5725 cm