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Object Name |
Rectal Thermometer Case |
Object ID |
2004.057.01.01 |
Date |
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Description |
Orange plastic container which resembles a ball-point pen. Inside of case is divided into two compartments. 2004.057.01.02: Orange and black lid with metal clip. 2004.057.01.03: Box is cardboard covered with blue paper. 2004.057.01.04: blue paper covered lid with label. Top also reads "Reduces Breakage to the Minimum". Label on left side reads "Fack-le Twin" 2004.057.01.05: Thermometer certificate envelope 2004.057.01.06: Thermometer certificate envelope 2004.057.01.07: Pencil scribbling on pamphlet. Appears unrelated to rest of artifact |
Dimension Details |
2004.057.01.01: 1x9.5x1, 2004.057.01.02: 1.5x5x1.5, 2004.057.01.03: 2x14x2, 2004.057.01.04: 2.5x14.5x2, 2004.057.01.05: 14x4x0.1, 2004.057.01.06: 14x4x0.1, 2004.057.01.07: 9x7.5x0.1 |
Materials |
Plastic/Metal/Paper/Ink |
Manufacturer |
Manufacturer Label: Faichney Inst. Corporation, Watertown, NY; 2004.057.01.07 W.A. Sheaffer Pen Company, Fort Madison, Iowa |
Inscription Type |
Other Markings |
Inscription Text |
Faichney's Improved Fever Thermometer; Box reads Reduces Breakage to the Minimum and Fack-ne Twin; Certificate envelopes have serial nos. 375 and T952. |
Patent Information |
14 October 1924. 2004.057.01.05: serial number 375 , 2004.057.01.06: serial number T952 , |
People |
Baker, Milton |
Owned By |
Dr. Milton Baker |
Provenance |
Tag on the object when found in 2004 reads Milton Baker. Baker (1870-1906) graduated from Trinity Medical College, Toronto, in 1894, and that year began practising medicine in Springfield, Elgin County, Ontario. In 1904, he undertook postgraduate work in eye, ear, nose, and throat specialities and then practised in Brantford, Ontario, before dying of meningitis. In the early 1920s, the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada, began accepting medical artifacts for a historical museum. It remained an unofficial collection until it was turned into the Medical Museum and Archives at University Hospital in the 1970s. In the 1990s, many of these artifacts were spread out among various local institutions, and the remaining objects were reorganized into the Medical Artifact Collection at the University of Western Ontario, catalogued and organized by Michelle Hamilton. |
MeSH Search Terms |
Diagnosis Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures Physical Examination / Instrumentation Body Temperature / Instrumentation |
Classification |
Diagnosis, General Temperature |
Related Publications |
P2004-057 |