Sphygmomanometer
notes: label: Description
content: Joseph Erlanger (1874-1965) was a physician who trained at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, taught at the Medical School at Washington University in St Louis, and won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1944. According to the donor of this item, Dr. Erlanger used this type of sphygmomanometer in his studies of Korotkof sounds (sounds generated when a blood pressure cuff changes the flow of blood through the artery).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Donation of George E. Burch, Jr., M.D., Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1980.0186.165
label: catalog number
content: 1980.0186.165
label: collector/donor number
content: 8
label: accession number
content: 1980.0186
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sphygmomanometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 17 1/2 in x 5 1/4 in x 8 1/4 in; 44.45 cm x 13.335 cm x 20.955 cm