Sputum Flask
date: label: date made
content: 1890s - early 1900s
notes: label: Description
content: This appears to be a “Discreet” sputum flask of the sort that was on the market by 1909. An inscription inside the lid reads "GERMANY."
label: Description
content: Ref: “The ‘Discreet’ Sputum Flask,” Detroit Medical Journal 13 (1913): 71.
label: Description
content: Arnold Carl Klebs (ed.), Tuberculosis (1909), p. 834.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: The Antibody Initiative
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Antibody Initiative: Tuberculosis
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-11458.02
label: catalog number
content: M-11458.02
label: accession number
content: 260557
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sputum flask
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass; rubber (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/8 in x 4 1/4 in x 2 1/2 in; 2.8575 cm x 10.795 cm x 6.35 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/4 in x 4 1/8 in x 2 1/2 in; 3.175 cm x 10.4775 cm x 6.35 cm