Suppository Machine
name: label: maker
content: Whitall, Tatum and Company
notes: label: Description
content: Cast iron suppository machine devised by Charles Albert Tatum (1849-1920), president of the Whitall Tatum glass company. One inscription reads “WHITALL, TATUM CO. / NEW YORK PHILA BOSTON.” Another reads “W.T. CO. NO 3 SUPPOSITORY MACHINE - PAT. MCH 26TH.'95.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Charles A. Tatum, “Suppository Machine,” U.S. Patent 536,240 (March 27, 1895), assigned to Whitall, Tatum & Co.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Whitall Tatum Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-00965
label: catalog number
content: M-00965
label: accession number
content: 65353
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Mold
label: Object Name
content: Suppository Mold
label: Object Name
content: suppository machine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (brass mold material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (iron mold sleeve material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (iron platform material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (chute material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (stopper chain material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (wheel material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 20.5 cm x 20.5 cm x 32 cm; 8 1/16 in x 8 1/16 in x 12 5/8 in