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Artifact Name	Jackson Laryngoscope
Type of Object	Laryngoscope
Manufacturer	Pilling
Place of Manufacture	Philadelphia (Pa.)
Date of Manufacture	1900-1930
Time Period	Twentieth century
Physical Details	Jackson laryngoscope with electric adapter and camera attachment. Laryngoscope body has a sliding slot attachment and a "U"-shaped handle with a wide thumb grip at one corner of the body. The apparatus is engraved "PILLING-PHILA U.S.A." The light system was modified by its owner to add a position light source in such a way that amount of light into the instrument was increased, making laryngeal photography easier. The electrical cord is shielded with dark brown rubber, and has a two-pronged male end and a wide metal female end with a standard pin clasp. A detachable bronze tube with an adjustable screw-type coupling connector fits the base of the instrument. Accession is contained in a box labeled "Dr. E. T. Gatewood. [Professional ?] Special Laryngoscope." Contains a chamois pouch for transportation of the instrument.
Medical Subject	Endoscopy; Otorhinolaryngologic Surgical Procedures -- instrumentation
Accession Number	1982.237
Type	Stillimage
Format	image/jp2
Rights Management	© VCU. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 Acknowledgement of the Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is required.
Collection	Medical Artifacts Collection
Contributor	Tompkins-McCaw Library. Special Collections & Archives
Digital Publisher	VCU Libraries
Local genre	medical artifact

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