Stomach Pump
name: label: maker
content: Arnold, Francis
notes: label: Description
content: Brass stomach pump with ivory handle and fittings. A small label in the lid of the case reads “F. ARNOLD / MAKER / 149 S. SHARP ST. / BALTIMORE, MD.” The purple velvet lining indicates that this was made before the growing concern with aseptic instruments in the early 1890s.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Maryland, Baltimore
topic: label: Subject
content: Disabilities
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Dr. James E. Blackburn in memory of K. T. Hall
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1979.0431.01
label: accession number
content: 1979.0431
label: catalog number
content: 1979.0431.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: aspirators
label: Object Name
content: stomach pump
label: Other Terms
content: Surgery
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood; metal; fabric (part: case material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal; bone/ivory (part: pump material)
label: Physical Description
content: fiber; rubber; metal (part: tube material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (part: key material)
label: Physical Description
content: bone/ivory; metal (part: attachments material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/2 in x 12 3/8 in x 6 3/8 in; 6.35 cm x 31.4325 cm x 16.1925 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 3/8 in x 12 3/8 in x 6 1/4 in; 6.0325 cm x 31.4325 cm x 15.875 cm