Thermometer
name: label: maker
content: Taylor Instrument Co.
notes: label: Description
content: Mercury-in-glass clinical thermometer with a metal case. The scale reads from 04 to 106 degrees F. The inscription on the white back reads “484653 / HOSPICLINIC / MIN / MADE IN U.S.A.” The Taylor Instrument Co. was making Hospiclinic thermometers by 1920, and applied for a trademark on the term in 1925.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Rochester
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mary E. and Joseph F. Melfi, Jr., Tupper's Drug Store, Summerville, South Carolina
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1980.0698.002
label: accession number
content: 1980.0698
label: catalog number
content: 1980.0698.002
objectType: label: Object Name
content: thermometer, clinical
label: Other Terms
content: Diagnostic Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/8 in x 3/8 in; x 13.0175 cm x .9525 cm