Catheter
name: label: maker
content: Willms
notes: label: Description
content: Silver eustachian tube catheter associated with Samuel J. Crowe (1883-1955), the first full-time otolaryngologist at the Johns Hopkins Medical School. The “Willms” inscription refers to a surgical instrument maker in Baltimore.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Dr. Samuel J. Crowe, Expert on Deafness,” New York Times (Nov. 15, 1955), p. 27.
label: Description
content: A. M. Harvey, “Halsted’s Innovative Ventures in the Surgical Specialties: Samuel J. Crowe and the Development of Otolaryngology at Johns Hopkins,” Johns Hopkins Medical Journal 140 (1977): 101-120.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Maryland, Baltimore
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Francis I. Catlin
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1993.0100.01
label: catalog number
content: 1993.0100.01
label: accession number
content: 1993.0100
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Catheter
label: Other Terms
content: Catheter; Eustachian
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 2 cm x 14.6 cm x .6 cm; 13/16 in x 5 3/4 in x 1/4 in