Lumi-scope
name: label: Associated Name
content: Johns Hopkins University
notes: label: Description
content: Flashlight with a "Lumi-scope / Pat. No. 2312305" inscription. This was invented by Frederick J. Berlinger, a hardware dealer in Cincinnati.
label: Description
content: Ref: Frederick J. Berlinger, “Flashlight,” U.S. Patent 2,312,305 (March 2, 1943).
label: Description
content: This item is part of a collection of equipment and instruments from the laboratory and clinic of allergist Dr. Leslie N. Gay (1891 - 1978). Gay received his medical degree from Johns Hopkins University in 1917. In 1923 he founded an allergy clinic at the university and served as director for 36 years. He and clinic colleague Paul E. Carliner developed Dramamine (dimenhydrinate), a preventative and cure for seasickness.
label: Description
content: This material was donated to the Smithsonian in 1979 by Gay’s son, Dr. Leslie N. Gay, Jr.
label: Description
content: [SEE: Gay L. N., Carliner P. E. (1949). The prevention and treatment of motion sickness. 1. Seasickness. <i>Science</i> 109, 359.]
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: used
content: United States: Maryland, Baltimore
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Dr. Leslie N. Gay, Jr.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1979.0306.19
label: accession number
content: 1979.0306
label: catalog number
content: 1979.0306.19
label: patent number
content: 2312305
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Light, Throat Illuminating
label: Other Terms
content: Light, Throat Illuminating; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 in x 2 in x 3/4 in; 15.24 cm x 5.08 cm x 1.905 cm