Leighton Test Tube
notes: label: Description
content: A Leighton tube, a glass test tube with an optically flat area, is associated with the pathologist, Joseph Leighton (1921-1999). An inscription on this example reads "Glass Blowing Associates, Inc. / 10515 Metropolitan Ave. / Kensington, Maryland." A paper inside the tube reads "Mr. Schilling / Sample."
label: Description
content: Ref: Joseph Leighton, The Spread of Cancer: Pathogenesis, Experimental Methods, Interpretations (1967).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Biological Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of the DeWitt Stetten, Jr. Museum of Medical Research, National Institutes of Health
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1991.0071.19
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0071.19
label: accession number
content: 1991.0071
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Leighton Test Tube
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 15.3 cm x 2.6 cm; x 6 in x 1 in