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This digital collection features selected medications and documents, manuals, and photographs relating to biochemical research and technology, with a focus on 20th-century instrumentation in medical laboratories. Various models of glucose, enzyme, and amino acid analyzers are a few of the instruments documented in these materials.

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    Medical equipment & supplies, Implements, utensils, etc.

    Gold-plated stem pessary (intrauterine device)

    • 1920

    A type of early intrauterine device (IUD) also known as a cervicouterine device or pessary. Curved disk with long coil stem attached to plate of disk. Coil opens into a wishbone shape with two arms. Arms are held…

    • Subject Women--Health and hygiene, Women's health services, Birth control, Intrauterine contraceptives, Contraceptives, Medical instruments and apparatus
  • Plastics, Electronics

    Zenith Royal Hearing Aid

    • 1950s

    Gold colored plastic box with a black circular grate and gold steel clips on the front; on the left top corner is a black plastic tone dial and on the right top corner is the volume dial; on the right side is a black…

    • Manufacturer Zenith Radio Corporation
    • Subject Zenith Radio Corporation, Hearing aids
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    Medical equipment & supplies

    DeBakey knitted arterial graft of Dacron

    • 1958

    Hollow 8 mm tube of crimped, flexible Dacron (synthetic polyester fiber), off-white in color, and pink orange product label housed in original sealed plastic bag. Typically in the shape of a tube, Dacron grafts are…

    • Manufacturer United States Catheter & Instrument Corporation
    • Subject Polyesters, Medicine, Dacron, Synthetic fibers industry, Medical care, Medical care--Equipment and supplies, Stents (Surgery), Arterial grafts, Clinical chemistry
  • Vessels (Containers), Glassware

    Manual breast pump with black bulb

    Glass tube with a collecting reservoir that opens into a funnel (or breast piece). Round black rubber pump attached to one end of the glass.

    • Subject Women--Health and hygiene, Breast pumps, Breastfeeding, Medical instruments and apparatus, Glassware, Pediatric nursing, Health
  • Vessels (Containers), Glassware

    "Omega" manual breast reliever with red bulb

    Glass tube with a collecting reservoir that opens into a funnel (or breast piece). Round red rubber bulb attached to one end of the glass. Stamp in black ink on red bulb reads "Ingram's/'Omega'/London."

    • Subject Women--Health and hygiene, Breast pumps, Breastfeeding, Medical instruments and apparatus, Glassware, Pediatric nursing, Health

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