Test Tube with Special Bulb for Mercury Ureometer - 1900 - Pharmacy - Apothecary
Period: 1900 - Pharmacy - Apothecary
To be diverted into a soliflore vase
Description
Test Tube with Special Bulb for Mercury Ureometer - 1900 - Pharmacy - Apothecary
Period: 1900 - Pharmacy - Apothecary
The ureterometer was used to accurately measure the level of urea in urine.
When the heavy ballast float was submerged in the tube, the upper basin acted as a safety tank (overflow), collecting spills of fluids or chemical reagents without ever soiling the bench or the operator’s hands.

You can find the large bell that protected it, listed as a high-shaped bell with a button.
Comes from an old cellar-laboratory of a Parisian pharmacy. The bottles and other utensils had not moved since the late 1950s on the shelves. The cellar had served as a laboratory for medical analyses and a laboratory for magistral preparations of the pharmacy from 1900 until around 1950.
Comes from a former basement-laboratory of a Parisian pharmacy. The bottles and other utensils had not moved from the shelves since the late 1950s. The basement had served as a medical analysis laboratory and a laboratory for the pharmacy's magisterial preparations from 1900 until around 1950.
Height: 35.5 cm - Floor diameter: 14.5 cm
To be diverted into a soliflore vase