Sphygmograph
name: label: maker
content: S. Maw, Son and Thompson
notes: label: Description
content: In 1881, Robert Ellis Dudgeon, an English physician and homeopath, introduced a portable sphygmograph that strapped to the wrist. The inscriptions in the case of this example reads “S. MAW, SON and THOMPSON / TRADE MARK” and “No. 694.”
label: Description
content: Ref: William Sterling, <i>Outlines of Practical Physiology</i> (London and Philadelphia, 1888), p. 235.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Miles Davis
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2010.0214.09
label: catalog number
content: 2010.0214.09
label: accession number
content: 2010.0214
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sphygmograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: fabric (part: material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (container material)
label: Physical Description
content: leather (container material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/4 in x 14 3/4 in x 2 in; 5.715 cm x 37.465 cm x 5.08 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 in x 2 7/8 in x 2 7/8 in; 5.08 cm x 7.3025 cm x 7.3025 cm