Anaesthesia apparatus
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- OBJECT TYPE
- suspended
- DATE
- 1960
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 2002.0896.001
- MANUFACTURER
- King, A. Charles
- MODEL
- Freedman Trichloroethylene Apparatus
- LOCATION
- London, England
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 3
- AKA
- jar and cap
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- Brown glass bottle; bright silver metal cap.
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 11.0 cm
- Width
- 10.2 cm
- Height
- 16.5 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Medical Technology
- Category
- Chemicals & medications
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- King
- Country
- England
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- London
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Ontario
- Period
- This unit presumably used c. 1960s; possibly also later.
- Canada
-
Part of a large collection of medical artifacts, archival material & trade literature transferred to CSTM in 2002 from the former History of Medicine Museum, Toronto, ON. This items was used in practice of Dr. J.S. Chaikoff, former Senior Attending Anaesthetist at Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ont.. Dr. Chaikoff was a general practitioner who specialized in anaesthesia. [Refs. 2 & 3] - Function
-
To dispense prepared anaesthetic for inhalation. - Technical
-
Designed in 1943 for use in obstetrics. [Ref. 3] - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- "A. CHAS. KING/ LONDON" stamped into cap top, and locking nut on U-bracket. "- KEEP LEVEL -/ WHEN FILLING " stamped into tube cover. UHN catalogue no. "988.18.5a" printed by hand in white ink on jar.
- Missing
- Unknown- appears to be complete.
- Finish
- Brown glass bottle; bright silver metal cap.
- Decoration
- N/A
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