Percussion Mallet
notes: label: Description
content: Medical practitioners use percussion (or reflex) hammers to test deep tendon reflexes. The Taylor or tomahawk form was designed in 1888 by John Madison Taylor (1855-1931), an American pediatric neurologist.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: From R.N. Taylor M.D., thru Mystic Seaport, Inc.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1977.1223.112
label: accession number
content: 1977.1223
label: catalog number
content: 1977.1223.112
objectType: label: Object Name
content: percussor
label: Other Terms
content: Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 1/2 in x 2 1/4 in x 11/16 in; 19.05 cm x 5.715 cm x 1.74625 cm