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.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: ZZ.RSN83526U10
objectType: label: Object Name
content: percussing mallet
label: Other Terms
content: Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 1/2 in x 1 9/16 in x 7/16 in; 19.05 cm x 3.96875 cm x 1.11125 cm