Esophagoscope
notes: label: Description
content: Esophagoscope made by Pilling and equipped with a Tucker aspirating tube valve. Gabriel Tucker was a professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine who had trained with Chevalier Jackson, and who “was widely known for his use of the bronchoscope and as a surgeon who specialized in the removal of lung cancers.”
label: Description
content: Ref: “Gabriel Tucker, Surgeon, 77, Dies,” New York Times (April 19, 1958), p. 21.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: associated subject
content: Endoscopy
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Pilling Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-13875
label: catalog number
content: M-13875
label: accession number
content: 293245
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Bronchoscope
label: Object Name
content: endoscope
label: Object Name
content: bronchoscope
label: Other Terms
content: Bronchoscope; Diagnostic Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 18 in x 3 1/2 in; x 45.72 cm x 8.89 cm