Phlebaumanometer
Phlebaumanometer
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- Description
- A phlebaumanometer measures blood pressure in veins and is especially useful for infants. The form was devised in the early 1940s by two cardiologists working at the Tulane University Med-ical School: George Edward Burch (1910-1986) and Travis Walter Winsor (1915-1996). W. A. Baum & Co. introduced the name in commerce in 1949 and applied for a trademark. This ex-ample is a prototype built by (or for) Burch and Winsor.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- phlebaumanometer
- Physical Description
- wood (stand and support material)
- metal (overall material)
- glass (overall material)
- rubber (syringe and tube material)
- Measurements
- overall: 20 in x 5 1/2 in x 8 in; 50.8 cm x 13.97 cm x 20.32 cm
- ID Number
- 1980.0186.166
- catalog number
- 1980.0186.166
- collector/donor number
- 40
- accession number
- 1980.0186
- Credit Line
- Donation of George E. Burch, Jr., M.D., Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana
- subject
- Diagnostic Equipment
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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