Brown Electro-Dermatome
name: label: maker
content: Zimmer Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description
content: A dermtome is used to produce thin slices of skin from a donor area, for use in skin grafts. Harry Merrill Brown (1914-1948), an Indiana surgeon, devised the Electro-Dermatome. Milford Barron (1913-2001), a graduate of the General Motors Institute, helped with the development. A patent was issued in 1947, and sold to the Zimmer Manufacturing Co. An inscription on this example reads “BROWN / ELECTRO-DERMATOME / ZIMMER MFG. CO. / WARSHAW, IND. U.S.A.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Harry M. Brown and Milford Barron, “Surgical Instrument for Skin Grafting,” U.S. Patent 2,457,772 (Aug. 25, 1947).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: Indiana, Warsaw
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Frank C. Koranda
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1997.0207.01.1
label: accession number
content: 1997.0207
label: catalog number
content: 1997.0207.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Case
label: Object Name
content: dermatome, electric
label: Object Name
content: dermatome
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: manufactured (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 cm x 31.3 cm x 22.5 cm; 4 5/16 in x 12 5/16 in x 8 7/8 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 1/4 in x 12 1/2 in x 10 in; 18.415 cm x 31.75 cm x 25.4 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 cm x 11.7 cm x 4.2 cm; 3 9/16 in x 4 5/8 in x 1 5/8 in