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was wondering the age on this cased thermometer i bought recently

guessing veterinary

god knows why i buy these things, suppose its what seperates us from the muggles !

p.s (hands washed thoroughly afterwards)

 

Jeez - I hope so!!

 

Typical lab thermometer for liquids, please note temp range if you still think it is for taking temp of living things.

 

well i used it in totally in the wrong place then

 

OMG !!! HAHAHAhaha ... Joy.

 

That came out of a chem lab, not out of a cow.(LOL) Still doesn't hurt to wash it of course; you don't know what chemicals it was in last and don't want to find out the hard way.

 

Arnold and Sons were in business from 1829 to 1929...the scale of this thermometer (up to 360 Celsius)(32-500 F) makes it a chemical thermometer. They show one (up to 400 degrees) in their 1880 catalog, but my guess yours is early 20th century.

 

I've taken the temperatures of hundreds of bovines. The veterinary thermometer is about 6 inches long, like those for humans. Used to carry one in my chest pocket next to my pen, in it's own little plastic sheath.

I made an improvement, consisting of a clothespin on a string, so it could be secured to the animal. (After losing a lot of thermometers.)

 

Hi,
Lost some of those human thermometers in people also. I remember three times of hunting some of those things out of the butt of really embarrassed patients.
greg

 

Butt hunting... that just sounds wrong.

 

I was in the ER with one of my sons who needed stitches (a common occurrence with my boys) and the boy in the next cubicle fell asleep with a thermometer in his mouth because the nurse left for a few minutes and he swallowed it. Much consternation in the ER that night! They whisked him away and I don't know how they got it out.

 

That's one reason they use the electronic ones with disposable covers now. They react faster, and being on a cord can't be swallowed. The plastic covers...maybe, but you'd have to work at it.