String Galvanometer
date: label: Date made
content: About 1930
name: label: maker
content: Cambridge Instrument Company
notes: label: Description
content: String galvanometer from the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania. This instrument was probably used by Jane Sands (b. 1893), a woman from Missouri who studied at the University of Edinburgh, received an MD from the Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania, and then taught medicine and cardiology at that Philadelphia school. After marriage to Robert Cumming Robb, Dr. Sands relocated to the Syracuse Medical School.
label: Description
content: Ref: Marilyn Ogilvie and Joy Harvey, The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science (New York, 2000).
label: Description
content: Jane Sands Robb, Comparative Basic Cardiology (New York, 1965).
topic: label: Subject
content: Women's History
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-11578
label: accession number
content: 265344
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Electrocardiograph