Mortar and pestle. Small, bowl-shaped glass mortar with pedestal base and small, open triangular spout at lip; bat-shaped glass pestle, wider at grinding head and narrows to clubbed end at handle. Pestle includes manufacturer markings: "2." A mortar is a bowl-shaped receptacle and a pestle is a blunt, roughly cylindrical implement. Together th...
Created:
1901 - 1960?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Nasal douche. Clear glass pot with long, wide spout and C-shaped handle. Includes manufacturer markings:"Noyes Bros & Cutler." A nasal douche is used to flush out mucus and other debris from the nasal passages and sinuses.
Contributor:
Noyes Brothers & Cutler, Saint Paul, Minnesota (Manufacturer)
Created:
1900 - 1945?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Nursing bottle. Clear blue molded glass banana-shaped infant feeder; body of feeder rests on one flat side; top side is convex and made up of 5 distinct facets; short, rounded neck curves upward from body.
Created:
1875 - 1900?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Nursing bottle. Long, thin cylindrical clear glass bottle; contains 12 ounce graduated scale. Includes manufacturer markings: "W. T. CO. -- A." The glass company Whitall Tatum Co. was established in Millville, New Jersey in 1806 by James Lee who originally called it Eagle Glass Works. The original factory made window glass, but quickly expanded ...
Contributor:
Whitall Tatum Company, Millville, New Jersey (Manufacturer)
Created:
1901 - 1924?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Nursing bottle. Clear, molded glass cylindrical bottle. Includes manufacturer markings: "CLEANEASY SANITARY STERILIZER -- Whitall TATUM COMPANY" and "W.T. CO. -- 8." The glass company Whitall Tatum Co. was established in Millville, New Jersey in 1806 by James Lee who originally called it Eagle Glass Works. The original factory made window glass,...
Contributor:
Whitall Tatum Company, Millville, New Jersey (Manufacturer)
Created:
1901 - 1924?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Nursing bottle. Clear, molded glass rectangular bottle with an image of a crawling baby on one side and an 8 ounce graduated scale on the other. Includes manufacturer markings: "P -- 1."
Created:
1920 - 1970?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Nursing bottle. Blown glass submarine-shaped bottle with hole on the upper portion of feeder, and a short spout with a rounded lip on the other end. To use the device, the person feeding the baby would have stopped the upper hole with their thumb or boxwood or cork stopper, then attached a nipple to the spout.
Created:
1801 - 1850?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Nursing bottle. Clear molded glass turtle-shaped Siphonia-style nursing bottle; oval body that is convex on one side and rests on the flat back; bottle neck angled away from the body; cork stopper lodged in the neck and topped with a black-painted [wooden?] cap; thin glass tube approximately 10 cm in length threads through the cap.
Created:
1875 - 1900?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Nursing bottle. Clear, pressed glass rectangular bottle with sloped shoulders and short, straight neck with a pronounced, rounded lip; posterior side contains a graduated scale up to 8 ounces; the anterior side contains large relief image of a terrier, with smaller images above and below the main image of the same terrier standing tethered to a ...
Created:
1900 - 1950?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Nursing bottle. Cloudy glass, teardrop shaped bottle and rubber nipple. Piece of paper affixed to the bottle with the following handwritten on it: "Too sacred to [waste?]. The baby who used this is now 69 years old.--1870 or older"
Created:
1850 - 1870?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Pestle. Bat-shapter glass pestle tapering to small, clubbed end at handle. A pestle is a blunt, roughly cylindrical implement. It is used with a mortar for crushing, grinding, and blending pharmaceutical or culinary preparations. Mortar and pestles are tools that have been in use, world-wide, since the Stone Age and since the 13th century have b...
Created:
1850 - 1950?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Bottle. Clear cylindrical blown glass glass bottle with narrow neck and flared rim; small spout at bottom of bottle. Reservoir bottles are used to dispense liquids and solutions in a laboratory setting; a hose attached to the spout on the bottle.
Created:
1850 - 1920?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Vaginal dilator. Cylindrical clear glass dilator with distal closed, rounded end, and proximal open end with flared lip; oval depression on one side of cylinder. This dilator was used to treat patients with chronic vaginismus.
Creator:
Sims, J. Marion (James Marion)" 1813-1883
Created:
1880 - 1920?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Specimen jar. Tall, cylindrical glass jar with slight protrusion at lip; round, flat glass lid with raised outer edge and two elogated oval-shaped indents on either side of jar. Includes manufacturer markings:"PAT JUNE 11th 1895" and "WHITALL TATUM & CO PHILADELPHIA NEW YORK."
Contributor:
Whitall Tatum Company
Created:
1895 - 1924?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Pessaries. Glass pessary with a tubular stem and a disc-like base perforated with two round holes. Pessaries are small prosthetic devices that are inserted in the vagina and used most frequently to treat pelvic organ prolapse; they are used both to prevent the prolapse from progressing but also to decrease prolapse symptoms and potentially avoid...
Created:
1870 - 1930?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Pessaries. Glass pessary with a tubular stem and a disc-like base perforated with two round holes. Pessaries are small prosthetic devices that are inserted in the vagina and used most frequently to treat pelvic organ prolapse; they are used both to prevent the prolapse from progressing but also to decrease prolapse symptoms and potentially avoid...
Created:
1870 - 1930?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.