Polyclinic Never-Leaking Ether Bottle
date: label: date made
content: ca 1890s
notes: label: Description
content: Glass bottle with a rubber stopper secured with a wire clamp. An embossed inscription on one side reads “POLYCLINIC / ETHER BOTTLE” while the other side has graduations from 2 to 10 oz. John Bingham Roberts (1852-1924), a surgeon affiliated with the Polyclinic in Philadelphia, promoted the form.
label: Description
content: Ref: John Bingham Roberts, The Polyclinic Never-Leaking Ether Bottle (1884).
label: Description
content: John Bingham Roberts, “The Polyclinic Never-Leaking Ether Bottle,” The Columbus Medical Journal 3 (1884-1885): 376.
label: Description
content: "Dr. John B. Roberts Dead," New York Times (Nov. 29, 1924), p. 13,
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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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-07846
label: catalog number
content: M-07846
label: accession number
content: 223292
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Bottle, Ether
label: Object Name
content: drop bottle, anesthesia
label: Object Name
content: anesthesia
label: Object Name
content: ether
label: Other Terms
content: Bottle, Ether; Surgery
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 7/8 in x 9 in x 3 1/8 in; 4.7625 cm x 22.86 cm x 7.9375 cm