Petechiometer
notes: label: Description
content: The Petechiometer was advertised in 1948 as "a new device used in the measurement of capillary fragility. It is a simplification of the suction-type resistometer used in the Dalldorf test.” 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: Full page ad for the Petechiometer, a Rexall exclusive, in The American Journal of Nursing 48 (August 1948), p. 63.
label: Description
content: This object is one of over 700 items from Glaser’s Drug Store of Sayre, Pennsylvania. In 1921, Simon Glaser (1860-1936), an immigrant from Russian Poland, established the drug store at 121 West Packer Avenue in Sayre, PA. His son, Sidney Glaser (1899-1992), soon joined him in the business and continued to operate the store until 1961. After retiring, Sidney Glaser retained thousands of products dating from the 1920s – 1960s, including pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, personal care products, and vitamins, and donated many of them to the Smithsonian in 1985.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Sidney Glaser
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1985.0481.414
label: accession number
content: 1985.0481
label: catalog number
content: 1985.0481.414
objectType: label: Object Name
content: cardiology
label: Object Name
content: petechiometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall, box: 1 1/2 in x 7 in x 1 1/2 in; 3.81 cm x 17.78 cm x 3.81 cm