Ear Douche
date: label: Date made
content: c. 1920
name: label: maker
content: E.B. Meyrowitz
notes: label: Description
content: Edmund Prince Fowler (1872-1966), a physician affiliated with the Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital, designed this ear douche and presented an example made by E. B. Meyrowitz to the New York Academy of Medicine in 1908.
label: Description
content: Ref: Edmund Prince Fowler, “A New Instrument for the Treatment of Diseases of the Ear,” Archives of Otology 38 (1908); reprinted in Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital Reports 6 (1905): 182-188.
label: Description
content: E. B. Meyrowitz, Opthalmological Apparatus, Eye, Ear, Nose & Throat Surgical Instruments (New York), p. 68.
label: Description
content: “Edmund Fowler, Otologist, Is Dead,” New York Times (Oct. 8, 1966), p. 26.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2004.0129.46
label: accession number
content: 2004.0129
label: catalog number
content: 2004.0129.46
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Ear Douche
label: Object Name
content: douche, ear
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 cm x 13 cm x 6.9 cm; 2 3/4 in x 5 1/8 in x 2 11/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 in x 5 7/8 in x 3 in; 7.62 cm x 14.9225 cm x 7.62 cm