Messer's Inhaling Tube
date: label: patent date
content: 1869-05-04
notes: label: Description
content: Glass inhaler in a cardboard box with an inscription that reads “MESSER’S / INHALING TUBE, / Patented May 4. 1869 / For Inhaling Wilton’s Catarrh Cure, or / any other liquid. / EDMINSTER & FASSETT, Proprietors, Boston.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Allen P. Messer, “Improved Inhaling-Tube,” U.S. Patent 89,591 (May 4, 1869), assigned to John H. Rogers.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
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: MG.293320.1519
label: catalog number
content: 293320.1519
label: accession number
content: 293320
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Inhalator
label: Object Name
content: inhaler
label: Other Terms
content: Inhalator; Drug Administrators
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: cardboard (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3.9 cm x 2 cm x 9.4 cm; 1 9/16 in x 13/16 in x 3 11/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7/8 in x 3 3/4 in x 1 5/8 in; 2.2225 cm x 9.525 cm x 4.1275 cm