Blood Viscosimeter
notes: label: Description
content: Blood viscosimeter of the sort devised by Walter Rudolph Hess (1881-1973), a Swiss physiologist who, along with Egas Moniz, won the 1949 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The form was known by 1906. An inscription on the box reads “VISCOSIMETER.”
label: Description
content: Ref: W. R. Hess, Zum Thema Viskosität des Blutes und Herzarbeit (1906).
label: Description
content: Gebrauchsanweisung fur das Viscosimeter nach W. R. Hess.
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: 2003.0018.03
label: catalog number
content: 2003.0018.03
label: accession number
content: 2003.0018
objectType: label: Object Name
content: viscosimeter
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 7.4 cm x 30.3 cm x 10.6 cm; 2 15/16 in x 11 15/16 in x 4 3/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 in x 12 in x 4 3/8 in; 7.62 cm x 30.48 cm x 11.1125 cm