Kymograph
notes: label: Description
content: Wax paper kymograph used for the continuous recording of respiration and pulse at the Lifwynn Foundation for Laboratory Research in Analytic and Social Psychiatry. It was brought to Museum by Hans Caspar Syz (1911-1991), a physician from Switzerland who moved to the United States in 1921 and became a U.S. citizen in 1929. While working at the Henry Phipps Psychiatric Clinic at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Syz met Trigant Burrow (1875-1950) who, in 1927, established the Lifwynn Foundation.
label: Description
content: Ref: A. S. Gall, “The Lifynn Foundation,” The Humanist Psychologist 15 (1987): 114-118.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1978.0624.01
label: accession number
content: 1978.0624
label: catalog number
content: 1978.0624.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: kymograph
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 14 3/4 in x 15 3/4 in x 7 3/4 in; 37.465 cm x 40.005 cm x 19.685 cm