Sphygmograph
notes: label: Description
content: Erasmus Arlington Pond (1828-1889) was an American physician, inventor and entrepreneur who held several patents for sphygmoscopes and sphygmographs. The one shown here reflects the patent of 1878. One advertisement urged that it "always be used when administering ether or chloroform."
label: Description
content: Ref: Pond’s Improved Sphygmograph (1877).
label: Description
content: Erasmus A. Pond, “Improvements in Sphygmographs,” U.S. Patent 205,412 (June 25, 1878).
label: Description
content: Frank Woodbury, “Pond’s American Sphygmograph,” Southern Medical Record 8 (1878): 262-264.
label: Description
content: R. E. Dudgeon, The Sphygmograph: Its History and Use As An Aid To Diagnosis In Ordinary Practice (London, 1882).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Vermont, Rutland
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: College of Physicians of Philadelphia. College Collections
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-07436
label: catalog number
content: M-07436
label: accession number
content: 220170
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sphygmograph
label: Other Terms
content: Diagnostic Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 in x 6 3/8 in x 3 7/8 in; 5.08 cm x 16.1925 cm x 9.8425 cm