Emmet's Uterine Elevator
notes: label: Description
content: Emmet's uterine elevator with an octagonal ebony handle, and an “OTTO & SONS” inscription, Ferdinand G. Otto and his son Gustav were surgical instrument makers in Philadelphia from about 1875 to about 1883. Thomas Addis Emmet (1826-1919) was a book collector, an advocate of Irish Home Rule. and for many years Surgeon to the State Women’s Hospital in New York.
label: Description
content: Ref: George Tiemann & Co., The American Armamentarium Chirurgicum (New York, 1879), p. 75.
label: Description
content: “Dr. T. A. Emmet Dead at Ninety Years,” New York Times (March 2, 1919), p. 21.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
topic: label: Subject
content: Women's Health
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.302606.407
label: accession number
content: 302606
label: catalog number
content: 302606.407
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Elevator
label: Object Name
content: elevator, uterine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, nickel(?) (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood, ebony (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 26 cm x 2 cm x 3.5 cm; 10 1/4 in x 13/16 in x 1 3/8 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7/8 in x 12 in x 1 1/2 in; 2.2225 cm x 30.48 cm x 3.81 cm