Object Details
- Description
- Flashlight with a "Lumi-scope / Pat. No. 2312305" inscription. This was invented by Frederick J. Berlinger, a hardware dealer in Cincinnati.
- Ref: Frederick J. Berlinger, “Flashlight,” U.S. Patent 2,312,305 (March 2, 1943).
- This item is part of a collection of equipment and instruments from the laboratory and clinic of allergist Dr. Leslie N. Gay (1891 - 1978). Gay received his medical degree from Johns Hopkins University in 1917. In 1923 he founded an allergy clinic at the university and served as director for 36 years. He and clinic colleague Paul E. Carliner developed Dramamine (dimenhydrinate), a preventative and cure for seasickness.
- This material was donated to the Smithsonian in 1979 by Gay’s son, Dr. Leslie N. Gay, Jr.
- [SEE: Gay L. N., Carliner P. E. (1949). The prevention and treatment of motion sickness. 1. Seasickness. Science 109, 359.]
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- Associated Name
- Johns Hopkins University
- Credit Line
- Gift of Dr. Leslie N. Gay, Jr.
- Measurements
- overall: 6 in x 2 in x 3/4 in; 15.24 cm x 5.08 cm x 1.905 cm
- Object Name
- Light, Throat Illuminating
- Other Terms
- Light, Throat Illuminating; Medicine
