218 - La valutazione della strumentazione analitica nell’Ottocento. L’albuminometro di Esbach

Evaluation of analytical instrumentation in 19th century. The Esbach tube albuminometer. In a paper published in 1886 in the Berliner Klinische Wochenschrift we can find a sort of “technical evaluation” of a method for the estimation of albumin in urine. Probably the “evaluation” had the aim to promote a method proposed by the french physician Georges H. Esbach in 1874 and furtherly modified in 1880, not well known until then. The author evaluated the accuracy, the reaction time and the possibility to change the used reagents proposed by Esbach. The author concluded that the method was very suitable to clinical needs and very useful to physicians.