Hospitals and Clinics
| Title | Hospitals and Clinics |
| View | Equipment, Outpatient Department Laboratory 1 |
| Series | II: Buildings and Grounds |
| Description | Per hour, the new Automatic Blood Chemistry Analyzer performs twenty analyses of blood sugar and blood urea nitrogen. A technician places blood samples in the circular plate depressions on the right. A series of ingenious pumps transfers the material to reaction chambers where the chemical of interest (glucose for example) is converted into a colored substance. The machine reads the color intensity and the results appear as lines on a graph. The exact amount of labor saved is yet to be determined, but in general, a machine serviced by one technician will do the work ordinarily done by three. |
| Subject Terms | Academic medical centers | Laboratories | Medical equipment | Blood--Analysis |
| Photographer | Lewellyn, Stephen |
| Photograph Date | 1958-04 |
| Physical Format | Photographic prints; 18.4 x 24.0 cm |
| Location | University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois |
| Collection | Archival Photographic Files |
| Repository | University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center |
| Image Identifier | apf2-03645 |
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