Petechiometer
notes: label: Description
content: The Petechiometer—exclusive with Rexall—was advertised in 1948 as "a new device used in the measurement of capillary fragility. It is a simplifi- cation of the suction-type resistometer used in the Dalldorf test.” An inscription on this example reads “REXALL DRUG CO.” Gilbert J. Dalldorf (1900-1979) was a pathologist, virologist, teacher and administrator who received a Lasker Award in 1959 for the discovery of the Coxsackie virus, a virus often found alongside polio.
label: Description
content: Ref: Ad in The American Journal of Nursing 48 (Aug. 1948): 63.
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: MG.M-06518
label: catalog number
content: M-06518
label: accession number
content: 180479
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Petechiometer
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 3/4 in x 4 in x 4 in; 17.145 cm x 10.16 cm x 10.16 cm