Percussor and Pleximeter
notes: label: Description
content: A pleximeter is used in medical percussion, to absorb the energy generated by the strike from a plexor. This form, sometimes termed a chest measurer, was associated with Francis Sibson (1814-1876), a British physician and anatomist who, in the 1840s, paid particular attention to the physiology and pathology of the organs of respiration.
label: Description
content: Ref: Francis Sibson, “On the Movements of Respiration in Disease and on the Use of a Chest Measurer,” Medical Chirirugical Transactions 31 (1848): 50-54.
label: Description
content: “Dr. Sibson’s Pleximeter,” in Association Medical Journal (1853): 741.
label: Description
content: “Dr. Sibson’s Pleximeter,” in Somerville Scott Allison, The Physical Examination of the Chest in Pulmonary Consumption (London, 1861), pp. 312-313.
label: Description
content: “Francis Sibson. M.D., F.R.S.,” The British Medical Journal 2 (1876): 446-448.
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: 1984.0790.01
label: catalog number
content: 1984.0790.01
label: accession number
content: 1984.0790
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pleximeter
label: Object Name
content: hammer, percussing
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass; steel; ivory; rubber; wood; fabric (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: case: 1 3/8 in x 2 in x 5 7/8 in; 3.4925 cm x 5.08 cm x 14.9225 cm
label: Measurements
content: instrument: 1 in x 1 1/2 in x 5 5/16 in; 2.54 cm x 3.81 cm x 13.49375 cm