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Transmission type Marey sphygmograph (with tambour) by Verdin, may have belonged to Marey, belonged to Lauder Brunton, French, 1860-1904
French physiologist Étienne-Jules Marey developed this sphygmograph. Marey improved the basic sphygmograph invented by German physiologist Karl Vierordt (1818-84) in 1855 by making it portable. It is thought this instrument may have belonged to Marey himself. A sphygmograph records the pulse. It is placed on the wrist. The movement of the pulse is transmitted through the rubber diaphragm. A lever attached to the diaphragm records the pulse contraction on smoked paper.
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- Category:
- Clinical Diagnosis
- Object Number:
- A600282
- type:
- sphygmograph
- taxonomy:
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- furnishing and equipment
- tools & equipment
- medical instrument
- credit:
- Brunton, L.
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