Object Record
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Metadata
Title |
Urine Sugar Comparator |
Object Name |
Comparator |
Object ID |
01:03.060 |
Description |
plastic comparator for Somogyi Method Urine sugar test; yellow print |
Dimensions |
W-3.75 L-5.125 inches |
Material |
Plastic |
Made |
A.S. Aloe & Co. |
Search Terms |
Blood Glucose Monitoring Comparator Diabetes Medical instruments and apparatus Urine--Analysis |
Provenance |
Dr. Michael Somogyi (1883 - 1971) was an Austro-Hungarian- born professor of biochemistry at the Washington University and Jewish Hospital of St. Louis, who prepared the first insulin treatment given to a child with diabetes in the USA in October 1922.[1] Somogyi showed that excessive insulin makes diabetes unstable in the Chronic Somogyi rebound of which he gave his name, and first published his findings in 1938. |