Capsule Filler
notes: label: Description
content: The donor of this capsule filler referred to a patent of Aug. 10, 1886. The holder of this patent was Ralph Walsh (1841-1915), a physician who served with the Army Medical Corps during the Civil War; worked with the Army Medical Museum; and became a professor of physiology at Georgetown.
label: Description
content: Ref: Ralph Walsh, “Capsule-Filling Machine,” U.S. Patent 346,964 (Aug. 10, 1886).
label: Description
content: “In Memoriam: Dr. Ralph Walsh,” Washington Medical Annals 14 (1915): 110-112.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gordon Leech
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-03615
label: catalog number
content: M-03615
label: accession number
content: 129300
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Capsule Filler, Walsh
label: Object Name
content: capsule filler
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: three capsule fillers: 1 in x 4 in x 1 1/8 in; 2.54 cm x 10.16 cm x 2.8575 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 11/16 in x 2 7/16 in x 4 5/8 in; 6.82625 cm x 6.19125 cm x 11.7475 cm