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. This example has a steel handle and a "Penn, U.S.A." inscription.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Harold S. and Dr. Theodore J. Blinder
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.309903.24
label: catalog number
content: 309903.20
label: accession number
content: 309903
objectType: label: Object Name
content: percussing mallets
label: Other Terms
content: Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 7/8 in x 3/4 in x 2 1/4 in; 20.0025 cm x 1.905 cm x 5.715 cm