Cautery Transformer
date: label: date made
content: 1948-1956
name: label: maker
content: F. Geiger
notes: label: Description
content: Portable cautery transformer made by the Geiger Instrument Company in Council Bluffs, Iowa, a firm that was founded in 1913 and that now trades as Geiger Medical Technologies. It was used by Dr. Joseph T. Salamy (1919-2010), a Lebanese-American physician who received his medical degree from the University of Oklahoma, established a family practice, and was a founder of the nonprofit doctor-managed Doctor's Hospital in Tulsa, in 1966.
label: Description
content: Ref: Edward Weck & Co., Inc., "Surgical Instruments" (1941), p. 525.
label: Description
content: V. Mueller and Company, "A Comprehensive Guide to Purchasing Hospital-Professional-Surgical Instruments-Equipment-Supplies" (1956), p. 837.
topic: label: Subject
content: Surgery
label: Subject
content: Medicine
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mark Hamra in Memory of Joseph T. Salamy, M.D.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2015.0253.01
label: accession number
content: 2015.0253
label: catalog number
content: 2015.0253.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Cautery Transformer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 19 cm x 19 cm x 19 cm; 7 15/32 in x 7 15/32 in x 7 15/32 in