Object Details
- Description
- Perforated aluminum splint with paper label that reads “LEVIS’S METALLIC SPLINT / No. 21 ADULT / POSTERIOR ELBOW / OBTUSE ANGLE / J. ELWOOD LEE CO.” Levis’s splints were designed by (or perhaps to the specifications of) Richard Joseph Levis (1827-1890), a graduate of Jefferson Medical College who practiced medicine and surgery in Philadelphia. John Elwood Lee (1860-1914) was a manufacturer in Conshohocken, Pa.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- maker
- Lee
- Credit Line
- Gift of Marion Huber
- Measurements
- overall: 8 in x 3 3/4 in x 10 1/2 in; 20.32 cm x 9.525 cm x 26.67 cm
- Object Name
- splint, posterior
- Other Terms
- Medicine
