Surgical Set
name: label: maker
content: Orthopedic Equipment Company Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: Wooden box containing seventeen metal and five ivory plates for repairing broken bones. One inscription reads “SHERMAN VANADIUM.” Another reads “CHAS. NEUHAUS & CO.” Sherman Vanadium Steel (aka stainless steel) was the first metal developed specifically for human use—for manufacturing bone fracture plates and screws. It was promoted by William O’Neill Sherman (d. 1954), a surgeon in Pittsburgh. Chas. Neuhaus & Co., of Baltimore, made various surgical and medical instruments.
label: Description
content: Ref: William O’Neill Sherman, M.D., “Vanadium Bone Plates and Screws,” <i>Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics</i> 14 (1912): 629-534.
label: Description
content: “Doctor Nails Broken Bone,” <i>Washington Post</i> (Aug. 2, 1912), p. 1.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
setName: label: See more items in
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.302606.748
label: accession number
content: 302606
label: catalog number
content: 302606.748
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Unknown
label: Object Name
content: surgical set
label: Object Name
content: bone plate set
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ivory (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: velvet (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: leather (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/2 in x 10 in x 4 3/4 in; 6.35 cm x 25.4 cm x 12.065 cm