Anesthesia Machine
date: label: date made
content: about 1930-1940
label: date(s) of previous ownership
content: 1985 06 13
name: label: maker
content: McKesson Appliance Company
notes: label: Description
content: Elmer Isaac M’Kesson (1881-1935) was a graduate of the Rush Medical College in Chicago who, while serving an internship in Toledo, Ohio, became interested in anesthesia. He developed his first anesthesia gas machine in 1910 and organized the Toledo Technical Appliance Co. That firm later became the McKesson Appliance Co. This McKesson anesthesia machine has a stand and two masks.
label: Description
content: Ref: Toledo Technical Appliance Co., McKesson Anesthetic Appliances Catalog (1926).
label: Description
content: "Dr. E. M’Kesson Dies; Specialist on Anesthesia,” New York Tribune (Feb. 23, 1935), p. 8.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Ohio, Toledo
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Dr. Lloyd E. Church
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1985.0629.01
label: accession number
content: 1985.0629
label: catalog number
content: 1985.0629.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Anesthesia Apparatus
label: Object Name
content: anesthesia machine
label: Other Terms
content: Anesthesia Apparatus; Dentistry
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 109 cm x 40 cm x 25 cm; 42 29/32 in x 15 3/4 in x 9 27/32 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 44 in x 14 in x 22 in; 111.76 cm x 35.56 cm x 55.88 cm