218 - La valutazione della strumentazione analitica nell’Ottocento. L’albuminometro di Esbach
Autore/i: G. Dall'Olio.
Rivista: RIMeL - IJLaM, Vol. 1, N. 3, 2005 (MAF Servizi srl ed.)
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.