Sutures
name: label: purchasing agent/middleman
content: Borowick, G. N.
label: maker
content: Davis & Geck, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: Inscriptions on the glass vial read in part “LOX / DAVIS & GECK, INC. / DANBURY, CONN. U.S.A. / STERILE BOILABLE / TENSION SUTURE.” Davis & Geck is a surgical/medical device firm that was established by Charles T. Davis and Fred A. Geck in Brooklyn in 1909, and that moved to Danbury in 1953.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: location of prior holder
content: United States: California, Long Beach
label: location of prior holder
content: United States: California
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from The Harriman Jones Medical Clinic, Long Beach CA
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1984.0853.25
label: accession number
content: 1984.0853
label: catalog number
content: 1984.0853.25
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Sutures
label: Other Terms
content: Sutures; Surgery; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: blue (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (vial material)
label: Physical Description
content: nylon (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: sutures:;