Medical instruments and apparatus
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Scope Note: Use for: Apparatus, Medical; Instruments, Medical; Medical devices
Found in 31 Collections and/or Records:
Tongue Depressors and Cotton Swabs in Cylinder, between 1924-1952
Item
Identifier: B109.01.0002.00004
Abstract
A chrome cylinder that is divided into three sections. In the largest section are two tongue depressers in wrappers. The tongue depressers are coated with an anaesthetic to numb throat pain. In the other sections are sticks and cotton for making cotton swabs. The materials belonged to Dr. Arthur L. Esserman (born 1898) who was an intern at Children's Hospital in Denver, Colorado from 1924 to 1926 and practiced pediatric medicine in Denver from 1926 until his death in 1952.
Dates:
between 1924-1952