Rectal Electrode
name: label: Associated Name
content: Custis, Marvin A.
label: maker
content: McIntosh Battery & Optical Co.
notes: label: Description
content: The “McIntosh Chicago” inscription on this rectal electrode refers to the McIntosh Battery & Optical Co. The form was associated with Georges Apostoli (1847-1900), a French physician who specialized in gynecology.
label: Description
content: Ref: A. Lapthorn Smith, “Georges Apostoli, M.D.,” in Annals of Gynecology and Pediatry 14 (1900-1901): 295-299.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Women's Health
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-07936
label: catalog number
content: M-07936
label: accession number
content: 223292
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Electrode
label: Other Terms
content: Electrotherapeutic Apparatus, Electrode; Electrode; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 3/4 in x 1 in x 3/8 in; 24.765 cm x 2.54 cm x .9525 cm