Sphygmograph
name: label: maker
content: Down Bros.
notes: label: Description
content: In 1881, Robert Ellis Dudgeon, an English physician and homeopath, introduced a portable sphygmograph that strapped to the wrist. The inscription in the case of this example reads “DOWN BROS. / THOMAS’S ST. / BOROUGH LONDON.”
label: Description
content: Ref: William Sterling, <i>Outlines of Practical Physiology</i> (London and Philadelphia, 1888), p. 235.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London, City of London
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: 1984.0465.01
label: catalog number
content: 1984.0465.01
label: accession number
content: 1984.0465
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sphygmograph set
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 in x 3 1/8 in x 3 1/8 in; 5.08 cm x 7.9375 cm x 7.9375 cm