Blood Transfusion Apparatus
notes: label: Description
content: Fred Foster Rudder (1902-1985), a surgeon in Atlanta, invented a device for continuous donor-recipient blood transfusions during prolonged surgery. An inscription on the frame of this example reads “RUDDER / SYRINGE HOLDER / THOMAS KEITH & CO. / ATLANTA, GA.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Fred F. Rudder, “Transfusion Apparatus,” U.S. Patent 2,077,774 (April 20, 1937).
label: Description
content: Fred F. Rudder, article in The Military Surgeon 83 (July 1938).
label: Description
content: Frank Drake, “Atlantan’s Device Boon to Anesthesia,” The Atlanta Constitution (Aug. 25, 1941), pp. 1-2.
label: Description
content: Lucy Justus, “His Invention Changed Surgery,” The Atlanta Constitution (Oct. 8, 1972), pp. SM30, 33-34.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: C. Bard Rudder, Fred F. Rudder, M.D., and Fred F. Rudder, Jr.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1980.0653.01
label: accession number
content: 1980.0653
label: catalog number
content: 1980.0653.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Syringe, Blood Transfusion
label: Other Terms
content: Syringe, Blood Transfusion; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 1/2 in x 8 in x 4 in; 29.21 cm x 20.32 cm x 10.16 cm