Arm Splint
name: label: maker
content: Zimmer Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description
content: Right arm Colles Splint No. 13A with a “ZIMMER MFG. CO. / WARSHAW, IND. USA” inscription. A Colles fracture is a break in the radius close to the wrist, that was described in 1814 by Abraham Colles (1773–1843), Professor of Anatomy, Surgery and Physiology at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. The Zimmer Mfg. Co. was established in 1927.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Indiana, Warsaw
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of William P. Evans
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-07294.03
label: accession number
content: 217731
label: catalog number
content: M-07294.03
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Splint, Forearm
label: Object Name
content: splint, forearm
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 in x 4 1/4 in x 3 3/4 in; 30.48 cm x 10.795 cm x 9.525 cm