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Bag, Medical
1920 Approximate
Doctor's Bag. Material: textile, metal. (a) Bag. Size: 10 1/2" W. x 17 1/4" L. x 6 1/2" deep. Description: black leather bag - metal hinges - two handle metal catches - three inside compartments, two compartments close with a plastic flap and snap, one closes with a leather flap and contains a smaller compartment. Housed inside compartment: (b) Scissors. Size: 6 1/2" L. Description: stainless steel - grooved curved tip. (c )Scissors. Size: 6 1/4" L. Description: stainless steel - curved tip. (d)Cotton Swabs. Size: 6 1/2" L. Description: five bundles of cotton swabs wrapped in white cloth - wooden stick - white cotton at end. (e) Bandages. Size: 1" H. x 1 1/4" diameter. Description: white cloth bandage wrapped in brown paper labeled" Johnson & Johnson."; Size: 1 1/4" H. x 1 1/2" diameter. Description: six bandages wrapped in brown paper.; Size: 2" H. x 1 1/2" diameter. Description: eight bandages wrapped in brown paper.; Size: 3" H. x 1 1/2" diameter. Description: four bandages wrapped in brown paper.; Size: 1 5/8" W. x 1 5/8" H. Description: three blue cardboard boxes - bandage inside - red and yellow print on box front: "Red Cross Bandage 1 inch 10 yards" - red and blue print on box side: "1 inch 10 yds. Red Cross Bandage Sterile Neatedge Johnson & Johnson New Brunswick, N.J. Chicago, Ill."; Size: 1 5/8" W. x 1 5/8" H. Description: brown cardboard box - bandage inside - brown print on side: "1 inch 10 yards SR Gauze Bandage SR 8001" - print on side: "SR The bandage in this package was sterilized during manufacture and sterilized again after packaging" - print on side: "Made in U.S.A. SR Sr 8001 Open other end" - print on side: "1 inch SR 10 yards Gauze Bandage Sterilized Distributed by the Seamless Rubber Co. New Haven, Connecticut" - spanish print on side." (f) Gauze. Size: 3" W. x 3" H. Description: six bundles - white cloth wrapped and pined to stack of gauze. (g) Stethoscope. Size: 23 1/2" L. Description: black rubber tube connected to metal tube - yellow and black ear pieces at end - brass circular piece at end of rubber tube - on brass: "Fleischer Stethoscope B-D Decton Dickinson & Co. Rutherford, N.J." (h) Scissors. Size: 7 1/2" L. Description: stainless steel - curved tip - on handle: "Chrome Craft Amer. Hosp. Supply Co. Germany." (i) Bottle. Size: 4" H. x 1 1/4" diameter. Description: glass bottle - silver metal cap - on bottle: "Alcohol."
Dr. Homer M. McIntire was Waseca's first board certified surgeon and practiced in Waseca from 1919 to 1954 when he retired.