Sphygmoscope
date: label: date made
content: after 1903
notes: label: Description
content: Sphygmoscope (or recording sphygmomanometer) based on the design of Joseph Erlanger (1874-1965), a graduate of the Johns Hopkins University Medical School who taught physiology at the University of Wisconsin, and then Washington University in St. Louis, Mo. In 1944, Erlanger and Herbert S. Gasser won the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine.
label: Description
content: Ref: Hallowell Davis, “Joseph Erlanger, 1874-1965,” <i>Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences</i> (Washington, D.C., 1970).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: The Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.217934.01
label: catalog number
content: M-07160
label: catalog number
content: 217934.01
label: accession number
content: 217934
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Kymograph
label: Object Name
content: sphygmoscope
label: Other Terms
content: Kymograph; Diagnostic Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 15 7/8 in x 9 1/8 in x 5 1/2 in; 40.3225 cm x 23.1775 cm x 13.97 cm