Burdick Vaginal Infra-Red Applicator, GU-12
name: label: maker
content: Burdick Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: Vaginal Infra-red ray applicator with a “Burdick's / Infra-Red Type GU-12 / Pat. Appl. For” inscription.
label: Description
content: Frederick Frazier Burdick (1869-1950), a pioneer in the field of light therapy and electric current for therapeutic uses, established the Burdick Cabinet Company in 1913. This became the Burdick Physio-Clinic Corp. for a brief period; Burdick Corporation in 1926; and later Burdick, Inc.
label: Description
content: The device is illustrated in "Infra-Red Therapy", by F.F. Burdick (1923), pages 18 and 43. "In no class of cases are the Burdick Infra-red Instruments more beneficially employed than in treating pelvic inflammations and Infections. A special feature of the vaginal applicators is the corrugations which engage the rugae of the vaginal walls, giving added radiation and retention. The accurate control provides a range of technique from tonic to sedative, and from bactericidal to reconstructive, action."
label: Description
content: Burdick produced a number of instruments for the application of infra-red radiation to the genito-urinary, rectal, nasal and aural orifices "for the relief of chronic or acute inflammatory, catarrhal and infectious conditions."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Women's Health
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1996.0290.32
label: catalog number
content: 1996.0290.32
label: accession number
content: 1996.0290
objectType: label: Object Name
content: therapeutic device, infra-red, vaginal
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 3/4 in x 2 in x 2 in; 17.145 cm x 5.08 cm x 5.08 cm