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Code 8463
EUR 250.00
In stock
1776260256Code 8463 HammerA metric reflex hammer, English manufacture from the 1950s, a medical instrument used by doctors to test tendon reflexes during a neurological examination.
It consists of a rubber head mounted on a chromed steel handle and is balanced to allow for a precise and painless strike.
Good condition.
Dimensions: 5 x 2 x 19.5 cm – 2 x 0.7 x 7.7 in
This type of hammer was invented by Dr. Joseph Skoda, leader of the Second Medical School in Vienna, who revolutionized the way doctors examined patients.
Before him, diagnosis was often based on abstract theories, whereas he imposed a scientific approach based on percussion, tapping the body and listening for internal sounds.
His 1839 treatise on percussion and auscultation is considered the text that transformed medicine from an art to an objective science. It was he who classified the sounds the body makes when struck, defining concepts such as the tympanic sound that doctors still use today to determine whether there is air, liquid, or solid tissue in the lungs or abdomen.
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