Steam Pack
date: label: date made
content: 1951-1955
notes: label: Description
content: Steam pack designed for applying localized moist heat to an area of a body, and thus produce hyperemia or an increase in the blood supply to the area. Inscriptions read “Chattanooga Pharmacal Co. / . . . / PAT. APPLIED FOR” and "Accepted, Council on Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, American Medical Association." The Chattanooga Pharmacal Co. (now simply Chattanooga) was established in 1947.
label: Description
content: Ref: Lee Jensen, “Compress,” U.S. Patent 2,710,008A (June 7, 1955).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1996.0290.11.11
label: catalog number
content: 1996.0290.11.11
label: accession number
content: 1996.0290
objectType: label: Object Name
content: steam pack
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 in x 9 1/2 in x 1/2 in; 20.32 cm x 24.13 cm x 1.27 cm