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Type of Object
Splint
Place of Manufacture
Warsaw (Ind.)
Date of Manufacture
1915-1920
Physical Details
Simple wire leg splint. Composed of a rigid wire mesh with a hard metal border running around the edges. Top of splint has a paper label fixed to it reading, "DePuy Adjustable, Patented, DePuy Manufacturing Co., Warsaw, Indiana."
Dimensions
30 cm. x 9 cm. x 14 cm.
Medical Subject
Splints
Accession Number
1989.6.23
Genre
medical equipment
Local Genre
medical artifact
Type
Still Image
Digital Format
image/jpg
Language
eng
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Rights
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Collection
Medical Artifacts Collection
Source
Original object: Wire Leg Splint, VCU Health Sciences Library Medical Artifacts. Special Collections and Archives, VCU Health Sciences Library, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Va.
File Name
mar00137.jpg