Blood Pressure Apparatus
notes: label: Description
content: Faught blood pressure apparatus made by G. Pilling & Son Co., in Philadelphia. This example was used by Charles Getz, a physician in Baltimore.
label: Description
content: Ref: Francis Ashley Faught, “Apparatus for Measuring and Indicating Blood-Pressure,” U.S. Patent 917,276 (April 6, 1909), assigned to George P. Pilling and Son, Company.
label: Description
content: Francis Ashley Faught, Blood Pressure Primer: The Sphygmomanometer and Its Practical Application (Philadelphia: Pilling, 1914).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.302606.301.01
label: accession number
content: 302606
label: catalog number
content: 302606.301.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Case
label: Other Terms
content: Case; Blood Pressure Determination
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ivory (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 4.05 cm x 10.5 cm x 10.5 cm; 1 5/8 in x 4 1/8 in x 4 1/8 in