Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.12475

    Glassware for a Dale-Schuster pump

    Date
    ca.1948
    Creator
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (object): 75mm
    width (object): 14mm
    depth (object): 10mm
    height (object): 66mm
    width (object): 21mm
    depth (object): 13mm
    height (box): 77mm
    width (box): 77mm
    depth (box): 29mm
    Subject
    Content object
    Description
    Two commercially-made joints for use in association with a Dale-Schuster pump. This mechanism, originally designed in 1928, was a double perfusion pump, used to circulate blood outside the body of an animal, bypassing the heart.

    One of the two joints has no markings. The second is marked: ‘INTERCHANGE JOINT No. B10 BSS No. 572 BRITISH MADE’. Contained in a contemporary, but repurposed blue cardboard box with various paper labels including: ‘FRAGILE, M.J. RYMAN, London’. With a typed label ‘2 glass parts for Dale-Schuster pump, received from Prof. D.H. Smyth. 30.9.48.’

    Sir Henry Hallett Dale (1875-1968) British physiologist was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1914, he served as its President from 1940-1945.

    Edgar Hermann Joseph Schuster (1897-1969) British instrument maker.

    David Henry Smyth (1908-1979) British physiologist was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1967.
    Object history
    Not known, other than the details supplied on the box label.
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