Traction Kit
notes: label: Description
content: Surgical adjuster for reducing dislocations, adjusting fractures, and maintaining coaptation. George Ogelvie Jarvis (1795-1875), a physician in Portland, Ct., received a U.S. patent for this apparatus in 1843. In 1845, he took an example to England and received a gold medal from the Society for the Promotion of Arts and Commerce. An inscription on this example reads “MANUFACTURED BY / G-KELLOGG / DERBY CONN.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Instructions for Using the Surgical Adjuster (London, 1845).
label: Description
content: George Olgevie Jarvis, Lectures on Fractures and Dislocations (Derby: H. & G. Kellogg, 1846).
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content: Theodorus S. Bell, “Jarvis’s Adjuster for the Reduction of Dislocations, and Treatment of Fractures,” The Western Journal of Medicine and Surgery 5 (1850): 331-349.
label: Description
content: C. E. Hammond, “George O. Jarvis, M.D., of Portland,” Proceedings and Medical Communications of the Connecticut Medical Society, second series, 4 (1875): 430-432.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Derby
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.302606.264
label: accession number
content: 302606
label: catalog number
content: 302606.264
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Case
label: Object Name
content: traction kit
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: fabric, velvet (overall material)
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content: metal, brass (overall material)
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content: red (overall color)
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content: metal, steel (overall material)
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content: fabric, chamois (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 12 cm x 38.5 cm x 28 cm; 4 3/4 in x 15 3/16 in x 11 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: p7118: 28 in x 48 in x 40 in; 71.12 cm x 121.92 cm x 101.6 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/2 in x 15 1/4 in x 11 in; 11.43 cm x 38.735 cm x 27.94 cm