Medicine Spoon
name: label: maker
content: Maw, George
notes: label: Description
content: G. Gibson (of 71 Bishopsgale Street, London) received a Silver Isis Medal for his newly invented medicine spoon in 1828. This pewter example was made by George Maw of Aldersgate Street, London.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Spoon for Administering Medicine,” Transactions of the Society Instituted at London for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce 46 (1828): 117, and Pl. I, Fig. 12.
label: Description
content: “Gibson’s Medical Spoon,” The London Journal of Arts and Sciences 2 (1828): 56-57.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London, City of London
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.M-08042
label: catalog number
content: M-08042
label: accession number
content: 224386
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Medical Spoons
label: Object Name
content: medical spoon
label: Object Name
content: medicine spoon
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 in x 1 3/4 in x 7 in; 2.54 cm x 4.445 cm x 17.78 cm