Object Details
- Description
- Blood glucose monitoring kit with packaging, carrying case, bag of thin lancets, "Getting Started" pamphlet, User's Guide, Warranty Registration mailer, and blood glucose test strips.
- White and gray glucose monitor with blue button, LCD display panel, and blue and black print. Box is blue and white with images of the glucose monitor, pictorial instructions, and pictures of people as well as a contents list. The carrying case is a zippered black fabric case with plastic compartments inside for blood glucose monitor and testing strips. Carrying case has blue print on the outside. The package of ultraTLC Thin Lancets contains an information sheet and 9 thin lancets. Lancets are clear plastic with needle inside and expiration date of December 2005. "Getting Started" pamphlet is white and blue with black print and includes pictorial instructions. User's Guide is a booklet with pink and black print and illustrations on the inside. Blood Glucose test strips box is blue and white with pictures of people and the test strips. Contains 40 test strips, booklet, and one calibrator. Test strips expire March 31, 2002. Test strips were not part of the original kit.
- Printed on box: The new MediSense Sof-Tact system obtains and applies a blood drop in one easy, virtually painless step; Confident Testing / Convenient automated testing at a single button press. / Comfortable virtually pain-free sampling sparing fingertips. / Consistently accurate lab-like results.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- about 2000
- maker
- Abbott Laboratories
- place made
- United States: Massachusetts, Bedford
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- Diabetes
- Credit Line
- Gift of Jeffrey Roe
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- ID Number
- 2014.0140.01
- accession number
- 2014.0140
- catalog number
- 2014.0140.01
- Object Name
- blood glucose monitor
- Physical Description
- plastic (overall material)
- fabric (overall material)
- metal (overall material)
- paper (overall material)
- cardboard (overall material)
- Measurements
- box: 20 cm x 14.1 cm x 7.6 cm; 7 7/8 in x 5 9/16 in x 3 in
- blood glucose monitor: 13.5 cm x 8 cm; 5 5/16 in x 3 5/32 in
- Record ID
- nmah_1464955