Ureometer
notes: label: Description
content: Ureometer for estimating the specific gravity of urine. This form was devised by Charles Avery Doremus (1851-1925) and improved by J. I. D. Hinds. Doremus was a graduate of the College of the City of New York with a chemistry Ph.D. from the University of Heidelberg who specialized in medical chemistry and toxicology. Hinds was a professor at Cumberland University in Lebanon, Tn.
label: Description
content: Ref: Charles A. Doremus, “A Simple Apparatus for the Rapid Estimation of Urea,” Journal of the American Chemical Society 7 (1885): 72-75.
label: Description
content: “Improved Ureometer,” The Popular Science News and Boston Journal of Chemistry 27 (Nov. 1, 1893): 174.
label: Description
content: Eimer & Amend, Illustrated Catalogue of Chemical Apparatus, Assay Goods and Laboratory Supplies (New York, 1910), p. 385.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Eleanor P. Custis
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-07861
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content: M-07861
label: accession number
content: 223292
objectType: label: Object Name
content: ureometer
label: Other Terms
content: Diagnostic Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 3/8 in x 4 in x 2 3/8 in; 21.2725 cm x 10.16 cm x 6.0325 cm