Heaf Test Apparatus

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Title

Heaf Test Apparatus

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Otago Medical School Alumni Association

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OMSAA Historical Artefacts

Description

Hand held apparatus which fires a difined pattern of six needles into the skin through a film of prepared protein derivative. Reactive test for tuberculosis.The Heaf test is a skin test, no longer available, to determine whether or not an individual is immune to tuberculosis, carried out before vaccination. A spring-loaded gun mounted with very short needles produces a circle of six punctures in the forearm through which tuberculin is introduced Named after Dr FRG Heaf (England). Contained in...

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Creator

Allen & Hanbury's London

URL

https://ehive.com/collections/5418/objects/614014

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