From the June 2013 issue of HealthCare Business News magazine
The picture and description appear courtesy of Dr. M. Donald Blaufox, M.D., Ph.D, from his website: www.mohma.org.
Each month we visit Dr. Blaufox’s Museum of Historical Medical Artifacts to take a look back at the medical equipment that cleared the way for what patients encounter in doctors’ offices and operating rooms of today. Some equipment may be recognizable, while other inventions featured here have since become obsolete or have had their usefulness discredited.
Category: Radionuclides
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Estimated Date: 1915
Manufacturer: F.H. Glew
Description: A red box embossed on top with “Radium Microscope,” label on the bottom reads “Micro scintilloscope F. H Glew etc.” Label in lid Radium Pendant Microsope showing scintillations in the dark, patent Eng., Fr., USA. Contains an ivory piece shaped like a chess pawn with a lens at the head end and hollow with viewing plate at the base inside. The device is not shown here as it was lost at a loan exhibition But it is cited because some years ago I purchased a carton of instruments from the descendant of a Glasgow optician who had been interested in X-Rays. The carton was contaminated with radium. This spinthariscope was in the carton as well. Also contained in the carton was a vial of radium, shown here in a protective lead glass container and of radioactive shellac for coating luminescent dials both of which were contained in a small wooden box in the carton . On further surveying of the box, it turned out it contained some cotton-like material and two vials; on one that it contained about l7 pCi of activity. One vial was handwritten “Radio Varnish”, and on the other vial, “Spirit of Turpentine”. The reverse side of both vials was labeled “F. H, Glew, Surgical Radiographer,Silver Medal (HighestAward, Paris 1900), 156 Clapham Road, London S.W.” These rather innocuous-looking objects containing an unidentified clear fluid were of particular interest,since in England the surgical radiographer was the rough equivalent of the radiological technician in the United States. A small corked vial was retrieved from the box containing about three cm3 of a course pink powder labeled “Radium Compound” “0.4 Admiralty Specification” “2 gr”.
