Reflex Hammer
notes: label: Description
content: The Taylor or tomahawk reflex hammer was devised in 1888 by John Madison Taylor (1855-1931), a pediatric neurologist in Philadelphia. Inscriptions on the handle of this hammer read "GERMANY CHROME" and "V. MUELLER U.”
label: Description
content: Ref: J. M. Taylor, “New form of percussion hammer,” Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 15 (1888): 253.
label: Description
content: S. Solis-Cohen, “John Madison Taylor, An Appreciation,” Transactions of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia 54 (1932): 76-82.
label: Description
content: D. J. Lanska and M. J. Lanska, “John Madison Taylor (1855-1931) and the first reflex hammer,” Journal of Child Neurology 5 (1990): 38-39.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: V. Mueller
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1977.0686.11
label: catalog number
content: 1977.0686.11
label: accession number
content: 1977.0686
label: serial number
content: DE10718
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Hammer, Percussion
label: Object Name
content: hammer, percussion
label: Object Name
content: surgical instrument
label: Object Name
content: diagnostic instrument
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, chromium (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 17.5 cm x 1.5 cm x 4.5 cm; 6 7/8 in x 9/16 in x 1 3/4 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5/8 in x 7 1/8 in x 1 3/4 in; 1.5875 cm x 18.0975 cm x 4.445 cm