General Information

Serial #

N/A

Part Number

1

Total Parts

3

AKA

N/A

Patents

N/A

General Description

Off-white woven fabric tape appears wound around opaque paper [waxed paper] form; form topped by natural cork disk.

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length

N/A

Width

N/A

Height

4.4 cm

Thickness

N/A

Weight

N/A

Diameter

2.7 cm

Volume

N/A

Lexicon

Group

Medical Technology

Category

Medical equipment

Sub-Category

N/A

Manufacturer

AKA

Hartz

Country

United States of America

State/Province

Michigan

City

Detroit

Context

Country

Canada

State/Province

Ontario

Period

Presumably used c. 1900-1950, and possibly later.

Canada

Part of a large collection of medical artifacts, archival material & trade literature transferred to CSTM in 2002 from the former History of Medicine Museum, Toronto, ON.

Function

Sterile tape used to tie off the end of the umbilical cord after birth, preventing infection and excessive bleeding after the umbilical cord is cut.

Technical

Unknown

Area Notes

Unknown

Details

Markings

None evident on tape.

Missing

Tape is complete in itself, but some of spool contents have been used.

Finish

Off-white woven fabric tape appears wound around opaque paper [waxed paper] form; form topped by natural cork disk. NB: form & tape were not removed from container at time of cataloguing

Decoration

N/A