speculum, rectal
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- Description
- Patent model for Alexander W. Brinkerhoff, “Rectal Speculum,” U.S. Patent 224,991 (March 2, 1880). Brinkerhoff (1821-1887) was an inventive entrepreneur in Upper Sandusky, Ohio.
- Ref: Alexander W. Brinkerhoff, Diseases of the Rectum and New Method of Rectal Treatment (Columbus, Ohio, 1881).
- Jacob Dissinger Albright, A Practical Treatise on Rectal Diseases (Philadelphia, 1909), p. 65.
- Joe Terry, “I’ll take Patent Potpourri for a Thousand, Alex,” Bottles and Extras (Spring 2006): 58-62.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- speculum, rectal
- Other Terms
- Surgery
- maker
- Brinkerhoff, Alexander W.
- Measurements
- overall: 1 3/4 in x 5 7/8 in x 2 3/4 in; 4.445 cm x 14.9225 cm x 6.985 cm
- one part: 5 3/4 in x 1 9/16 in x 1 1/4 in; 14.605 cm x 3.96875 cm x 3.175 cm
- second part: 4 15/16 in x 5/8 in x 1 in; 12.54125 cm x 1.5875 cm x 2.54 cm
- ID Number
- MG.M-04325
- catalog number
- M-04325
- patent number
- 224,991
- accession number
- 89797
- subject
- Patent Models
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- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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