Gastroscope
date: label: date made
content: 1948
notes: label: Description
content: This gastroscope came to the Museum in 1971. A metal tag in the case reads “BENEDICT FLEXIBLE OPERATING GASTROSCOPE / American Gastroscope Makers, Inc. / . . . / NEW YORK, U.S.A.” Edward B. Benedict (1897-1974) was a Boston physician affiliated with the Harvard Medical School who specialized in endoscopy.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Edward B. Benedict, Surgeon, Dies at 77,” <i>New York Times</i> (March 31, 1974), p. 55
label: Description
content: “E. Benedict, Developed Surgery Aid,” <i>Boston Globe</i> (March 30, 1974), p. 26.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: associated subject
content: Endoscopy
setName: label: See more items in
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: MG.M-13908
label: catalog number
content: M-13908
label: accession number
content: 295421
label: serial number
content: 820
objectType: label: Object Name
content: gastroscope
label: Object Name
content: endoscope
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 in x 36 1/2 in x 6 1/4 in; 7.62 cm x 92.71 cm x 15.875 cm