Nasal Electrode
date: label: date made
content: 1910-1017
name: label: Associated Name
content: Custis, Marvin A.
label: maker
content: Wappler Electric Manufacturing Co., Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: Nasal electrode with a high frequency fulguration handle associated with Finley Ransom Cook (1868-1937), a graduate of the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, and an early practitioner of x-ray therapy. An inscription reads “WAPPLER E. MFG. CO. / N.Y.” Fulguration refers to the destruction of abnormal tissue by means of electricity.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Acne of the Nose Treated With The High Frequency Discharge,” in W. Franklin Coleman, Electricity in Diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat (1912), pp. 457-458.
label: Description
content: “Dr. Finley R. Cook,” New York Times (May 6, 1937), p. 25.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Eleanor P. Custis
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-07943
label: catalog number
content: M-07943
label: catalog number
content: 223292.161
label: accession number
content: 223292
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Electrotherapeutic Apparatus, Handle
label: Object Name
content: electrotherapeutic apparatus handle
label: Object Name
content: handle
label: Other Terms
content: Electrotherapeutic Apparatus, Handle; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 3/4 in x 5/8 in x 1 3/8 in; 22.225 cm x 1.5875 cm x 3.4925 cm