M0018415: Tonometer designed by Gustav Gaertner in 1899 and made by Schulmeister, Vienna

Date:
January 1961
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/163/81
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M0018415: Tonometer designed by Gustav Gaertner in 1899 and made by Schulmeister, Vienna. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced October 2020: Tonometer; Gustav Gaertner, 1899

Description

Photograph of a tonometer in its case, an instrument for measuring blood pressure by a compression ring applied to the finger. It was presented to the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1919 and accessioned in 1918 (accession number R11213). It is not held by Wellcome Collection.

Publication/Creation

January 1961

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides an entry for the item: R11213

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Copyright is held by Wellcome Collection

Notes

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2022.

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Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.

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