Emerson Rocking Bed, Model RBV
name: label: maker
content: J. H. Emerson Co.
notes: label: Description
content: The rocking bed was invented in the mid-1940s by Jessie Wright (1900-70), an English doctor living in the U.S., and found useful for polio patients with paralyzed chest muscles. This example was made by the J. H. Emerson Company.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Rocking Bed Used For Polio,” Science News Letter 52 (Sept. 27, 1947): 204.
label: Description
content: Jesse Wright, “The Respir-aid Rocking Bed in Poliomyelitis,” The American Journal of Nursing 47 (July 1947): 454-455.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Cambridge
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Donation of George E. Burch, Jr., M.D., Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1980.0186.163
label: catalog number
content: 1980.0186.163
label: accession number
content: 1980.0186
label: collector/donor number
content: 128
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bed, rocking
label: Object Name
content: bed, oscillating
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 53 1/2 in x 80 in x 42 in; 135.89 cm x 203.2 cm x 106.68 cm