Accession No
1429
Brief Description
Keating’s Patent Urinometer, by J. Hicks, English, 1900 (c)
Origin
England; London
Maker
Hicks, J.
Class
medical
Earliest Date
1900
Latest Date
1900
Inscription Date
Material
paper (card); wood; hide (leather); plastic (ivorine, two others); metal (steel, brass, white metal, oxidised brass); glass; organic (hair); liquid (alcohol?); cloth (stain, velvet)
Dimensions
box length 305mm; breadth 115mm; height 39mm; length (stand) 215mm; length (tube) 285mm
Special Collection
Provenance
Transferred from the Pathology Laboratory, University of Cambridge, in 02/1963.
Inscription
‘Keatings Patent Urinometer. J. Hicks Maker LONDON.
No 18964.’ (on tube scale)
Description Notes
Fitted wooden box; leather covered, lined with blue satin and velvet; brass hinges and push-fit fastener. Urinometer consists of glass reservoir filled with pink coloured alcohol (?). Ivorine scale fitted to long side of reservoir with non-linear scale graduated 0 - 60 Grains, numbered by 10, divided to 1. Counterweight at one end; hook at other; central pivot bar. Reservoir set on black plastic backing. Reservoir is to be suspended on pivots from parallel hooks on chain which is attached to stainless steel stand and folding foot plate. Bottle filled with urine is suspended from hook on reservoir and alcohol moves along scale.
Cleaning brush in case.
Condition good; complete.
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Events
Description
Urinology is the chemical analysis of urine. Urinology developed in the 19th Century and is still important for diagnosing a number of diseases or viruses. Substances in urine, such as sugar for example could indicate diabetes.
The urine test kit includes a urinometer which is used to measure the gravity or density of urine. A urinometer would be used in the diagnosis of diabetes. The urine is placed in the glass bottle which is then hung on the end of the urinometer which gives off a reading when the liquid inside moves.
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