Shelanski Insufflator
name: label: maker
content: John Wyeth & Brother
notes: label: Description
content: An insufflator is designed to blow something onto a body surface or into a body cavity. An inscription on the cardboard box of this example reads in part “SHELANSKI INSUFFLATOR” and "JOHN WYETH & BROTHER, Incorporated." Herman A. Shelanski served as the president and director of the Industrial Toxicology Laboratories, Inc., and was known for having discovered a blood plasma substitute.
label: Description
content: Ref: Herman A. Shelanski, “Insufflator,” U.S. Patent 2,185,927 (Jan. 2, 1940).
label: Description
content: “DR. H. A. SHELANSKI DIES,” New York Times (April 15, 1954), p. 29.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: ZZ.RSN82820Z01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: insufflator
label: Object Name
content: Insufflator
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass, ?, transparent (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall as stored: 2 1/2 in x 3 1/2 in x 7 in; 6.35 cm x 8.89 cm x 17.78 cm