Cooper Basal Ganglia Guide
date: label: Date made
content: c. 1957-1964
name: label: maker
content: Invengineering, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: Irving Cooper (1922-1985) was a neurosurgeon who developed several techniques for the surgical management of Parkinson's disease and other crippling movement disorders. He donated this item to the Smithsonian in 1964. An inscription reads “COOPER BASAL GANGLIA GUIDE, another INVENGINEERING product, Belmar, N.J., U.S.A.”
label: Description
content: Ref: “Irving Cooper, Man of Science and Arts,” New York Times (Sept. 25, 1977), pp. 1 and 4.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Dr. Irving Cooper
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-10887
label: catalog number
content: M-10887
label: accession number
content: 256195
objectType: label: Object Name
content: guide, ganglionic
label: Object Name
content: surgical instrument
label: Other Terms
content: Surgery
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: black (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: anodinized alluminum alloy with stainless steel and nickel plated accessories (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10.5 cm x 8 cm x 28.5 cm; 4 1/8 in x 3 1/8 in x 11 1/4 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/4 in x 7 in x 11 3/8 in; 10.795 cm x 17.78 cm x 28.8925 cm