Vacuum Tube for Blood Taking
date: label: date made
content: ca 1950s
notes: label: Description
content: Albert Keidel (1877-1942), a physician affiliated with the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, introduced a vacuum tube for collecting blood for testing for syphilis and typhoid fever. An inscription on the cardboard box holding this example reads in part “SHEPPARD’S / KEIDEL Vacuum TUBE / For Blood Taking.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Albert Keidel, “A Sample Bleeding Tube for Obtaining Specimens for the Wasserman Reaction,” Journal of the American Medical Association 58 (1912): 1579.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1996.0290.51
label: accession number
content: 1996.0290
label: catalog number
content: 1996.0290.51
objectType: label: Object Name
content: tube, blood taking
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall -box: 7/8 in x 6 1/2 in x 7/8 in; 2.2225 cm x 16.51 cm x 2.2225 cm