Dr. Hinton's Syphilis Testing Machine
notes: label: Description
content: William Augustus Hinton (1883-1959) was an African American whose parents had been enslaved, and a groundbreaking bacteriologist who developed blood tests for detecting syphilis. A graduate of Harvard College and the Harvard Medical School, Dr. Hinton spent many years working on syphilis at the Wasserman Laboratory, a part of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. He was the first African American to write a medical textbook, Syphilis and its Treatment (1936), and the first to be promoted to professor at Harvard University.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: African American
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Antibody Initiative: Diagnostics
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2017.0146.01.1
label: catalog number
content: 2017.0146.01.1
label: accession number
content: 2017.0146
objectType: label: Object Name
content: diagnostic; syphilis
label: Object Name
content: syphilis testing machine
label: Object Name
content: diagnostic, syphilis
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 38 1/4 in x 36 1/4 in x 20 1/2 in; 97.155 cm x 92.075 cm x 52.07 cm