Circumcision Clamp
date: label: date made
content: after 1939
name: label: maker
content: Gomco Surgical Mfg. Co.
notes: label: Description
content: The Gomco Surgical Mfg. Co. was established by Aaron A. Goldstein (1889-1945) in Buffalo, N.Y., in the 1930s. Its first important product was a circumcision clamp developed by (or in partnership with) Hiram S. Yellen (1894-1969), a Jewish immigrant from Poland who had earned an M.D. from the University of Buffalo. An inscription on the cardboard box containing this example reads “GOMCO / BLOODLESS CIRCUMCISION CLAMP / (FOR PHYSICIAN’S USE ONLY) / MFG. BY / THE GOMCO SURGICAL MFG. CORPORATION / BUFFALO, N.Y.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Hiram S. Yellen, "Bloodless Circumcision of the Newborn," American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 30 (1935): 146-147.
label: Description
content: Aaron A. Goldstein, “Design for a Bloodless Circumcision Clamp,” U.S. Design Patent 119,180 (Feb. 27, 1940).
label: Description
content: “Aaron A. Goldstein,” New York Times (Feb. 27, 1945), p. 19.
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Buffalo
topic: label: Subject
content: Judaica
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2015.0158.27
label: catalog number
content: 2015.0158.27
label: accession number
content: 2015.0158
objectType: label: Object Name
content: circumcision set
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cardboard (container material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (part: clamp material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (part: insert material)
label: Measurements
content: container: 11.6 cm x 5.5 cm x 5.5 cm; 4 9/16 in x 2 5/32 in x 2 5/32 in
label: Measurements
content: insert: 15.3 cm x 8.6 cm x .1 cm; 6 1/32 in x 3 3/8 in x 1/32 in
label: Measurements
content: clamp: 10.1 cm x 2.2 cm x 4.5 cm; 3 31/32 in x 7/8 in x 1 25/32 in