Title
De Grave Apothecary balance
Subject
Balances (Weighing instruments)
Oral medication--Equipment and supplies
Weights and Measures
Administration, Oral--instrumentation
Medicine Receptacles
Description
One pan is for the items being weighed, one is for the weights
Used to weigh medicines
Brass crank arm scale with two pans suspended from the end of a beam attached to a center pole set on a wooden box with a drawer holding weights.
Creator
De Grave (Firm : England)
Publisher
Health Sciences Library
State University of New York at Buffalo
Date
1880?
Contributor
Alex Peck (Firm)
Cravens, Annette
Rights
Contact the History of Medicine Collection, https://library.buffalo.edu/historyofmedicine
Format
Center pole: 34 cm. beam: 19 cm. Box: 28 cm. x 14 cm. x 7 cm.
Type
Medical instrument
Image
Still image
Identifier
85.10.1
Alternative Title
Apothecary balance
Date Created
4/7/2006
Medium
Wood and metal
Citation
De Grave (Firm : England), “De Grave Apothecary balance,” Digital Collections - University at Buffalo Libraries, accessed April 25, 2024, https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/items/show/16780.