Van Slyke Blood Gas Apparatus
name: label: maker
content: Eimer and Amend
notes: label: Description
content: Apparatus for the Van Slyke chemical test for determining amino acids containing a primary amine group. An inscription reads “VanSlyke Blood Gas Apparatus / Eimer and Amend / New York, New York."
label: Description
content: Donald Dexter Van Slyke (1883-1971) was a biochemist with a PhD from the University of Michigan who worked at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research in New York.
label: Description
content: Ref: A. Baird Hastings, “Donald Dexter Van Slyke, 1883-1971),” National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoir (Washington, D.C., 1976).
label: Description
content: Robert D. Simoni, Robert L. Hill, and Martha Vaughan, "The Measurement of Blood Gases and the Manometric Techniques Developed by Donald Dexter Van Slyke," Journal of Biological Chemistry 277 (2002): e16.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Donation of George E. Burch, Jr., M.D., Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1980.0186.084
label: catalog number
content: 1980.0186.084
label: accession number
content: 1980.0186
objectType: label: Object Name
content: blood gas apparatus
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 101 cm x 37.5 cm x 28 cm; 39 3/4 in x 14 3/4 in x 11 1/32 in