Hemoglobinometer
name: label: maker
content: Queen and Company
notes: label: Description
content: Arthur Dare, a Philadelphia physician, devised a handheld instrument that detected anemia by comparing blood samples on slides to red colored glass backlit by a candle. An inscription on the inside lid of the case of this example reads “Dr. Dare’s / Hemoglobinometer / Made By / Queen & Co. / Philadelphia.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Arthur Dare, “A New Hemoglobinometer for the Examination of Undiluted Blood,” Philadelphia Medical Journal (Sept. 22, 1900).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: David D. Blume
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1981.0489.01
label: accession number
content: 1981.0489
label: catalog number
content: 1981.0489.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: blood testing apparatus
label: Object Name
content: diagnostic
label: Object Name
content: hemoglobinometer
label: Other Terms
content: Diagnostic Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 3/4 in x 6 1/2 in x 4 1/4 in; 4.445 cm x 16.51 cm x 10.795 cm