From the July 2012 issue of HealthCare Business News magazine
The picture and description appear courtesy of Dr. M. Donald Blaufox, M.D., Ph.D, from his website: www.mohma.org.
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 inventions featured here have since become obsolete or have had their usefulness discredited.
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Category: Pulmonary
Estimated Date: 1900
Name: Sputum cup
Manufacturer: Dr. GBR Muster
Description: 4” glass flask of a blue glass, 0.75“x 0.5” cap at one end for emptying with a 1.5“x 0.5” cap at other end with a hinged lid and the name engraved on the lid. Lid locks in place with a snap lock, both caps are of nickel or chrome plated metal - an unpleasant reminder of the pre-antibiotic era.
