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Artifact Name	O'Dwyer's Intubation Set
Type of Object	Set, intubation
Manufacturer	CRMOL (?)
Date of Manufacture	1890-1900
Time Period	Nineteenth century
Dimensions	3 cm. x 22.5 cm. x 8.5 cm.
Physical Details	O'Dwyer's Intubation Set in a stainless steel case. Set consists of the following instruments: 7 hard rubber black tubes; these fit over 7 long obdurators of varying sizes, including an introducer with a long stainless steel handle and shaft with a spring mechanism attached to the end, an extractor with a long stainless steel handle and curved shaft with forcep-like action. Both long instruments have fluted, square handles. Missing the mouth gag. Plate on the inside that holds in the obdurators has a scale on it, 1 to 12. Also has a patent date: PAT July 12 1892, Pat. Pending. The largest hard rubber tube is cracked.
Medical Subject	Intubation
Accession Number	1986.189
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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