Cambridge Plethysmograph, Burch-Winsor Model
name: label: maker
content: Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company
notes: label: Description
content: A plethysmograph measures and records variations in the volume of a part of a body, especially those caused by changes in blood pressure. An inscription on this example reads "Cambridge Plethysmograph / Burch-Winsor Model, #0-195102 / made for Tulane Cardiovascular Lab, by the Cambridge Instrument Co." George E. Burch (1910-1986), a cardiologist at Tulane University, and his colleague, Travis Walter Winsor (1915-1996), introduced the form in the late 1940s.
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: 1980.0186.083
label: catalog number
content: 1980.0186.083
label: accession number
content: 1980.0186
label: serial number
content: 0-195102
objectType: label: Object Name
content: plethysmograph
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 32.5 cm x 61 cm x 24.5 cm; 12 25/32 in x 24 1/32 in x 9 21/32 in