by
Sean Ruck, Contributing Editor | June 09, 2016
From the June 2017 issue of HealthCare Business News magazine
Each month, we visit Dr. Blaufox’s Museum of Historical Medical Artifacts to take a look back at the medical equipment that cleared the way for what patients encounter in doctors’ offices and operating rooms of today. Some equipment may be recognizable, while other featured inventions have since become obsolete or have had their usefulness discredited.
The picture and description appear courtesy of Dr. M. Donald Blaufox, M.D., Ph.D., from his website: www.mohma.org.
Category: Sphygmomanometer
Estimated Date: 1904
Name: Sphygmomanometer, Erlanger
Description: Includes a metal case. The base has a place for a revolving drum, but the drum is missing. The timer and motor also are in the base. The manometer is a U-tube type. There is a glass dome to translate the pressure to the recording device which is a pen on a tambour mounted on a bracket.
