Sphygmomanometer

Description:

Joseph Erlanger (1874-1965) was a physician who trained at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, taught at the Medical School at Washington University in St Louis, and won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1944. According to the donor of this item, Dr. Erlanger used this type of sphygmomanometer in his studies of Korotkof sounds (sounds generated when a blood pressure cuff changes the flow of blood through the artery).

Location: Currently not on view

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Credit Line: Donation of George E. Burch, Jr., M.D., Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana

Data Source: National Museum of American History

Id Number: 1980.0186.165Catalog Number: 1980.0186.165Collector/Donor Number: 8Accession Number: 1980.0186

Object Name: sphygmomanometer

Measurements: overall: 17 1/2 in x 5 1/4 in x 8 1/4 in; 44.45 cm x 13.335 cm x 20.955 cm

Guid: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b2-9a93-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record Id: nmah_1814554

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