Apheresis Machine
date: label: Date made
content: 1973
name: label: maker
content: Fenwal
notes: label: Description
content: Apheresis, in medicine, refers to removing blood plasma from the body by the withdrawal of blood, separating the plasma from the cells, and reintroducing the cells. The procedure is used especially to remove antibodies in order to treat autoimmune diseases. Inscriptions on this apheresis machine read “Fenwal / Leukopheresis Pump” and “Model FLP-3-4R4020 . . . Fenwal Laboratories . . . Division of Travenol Laboratories, Inc.”
label: Description
content: Herbert Myers Cullis (1938-2020), the donor of this machine, was the chief engineer for Aminco (American Instrument Co.) in Silver Spring, Md.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Biological Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Herbert M. Cullis
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1999.0001.01.1
label: accession number
content: 1999.0001
label: catalog number
content: 1999.0001.01.1
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Leukopheresis Pump
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 28 1/2 in x 9 1/2 in x 23 1/2 in; 72.39 cm x 24.13 cm x 59.69 cm