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Subject: Re: Do you prefer digital or glass thermometers? Author: Richard [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: Wednesday, February 23, 2011, 05:23: pm In reply to: Jack 's message, "Do you prefer digital or glass thermometers?" on Wednesday, February 23, 2011, 04:34: pm Yeah, Jack- With the ban on mercury thermometers, their purchase these days is pretty much through E-bay, or if lucky enough, finding a drug store (an older Mom & Pop type or if they even exist, a Rexall drugstore)where there might still be some. Years back, just after the hoopla about the mercury scare, I came across a drug store in NYC that had a bevy of them. I was given guff when I asked to buy some, by the main pharmacist, but the other guy working with him came over and told me to stop by a little later. I did, and walked out with about 15 of both oral & rectal thermometers of the glass-mercury type. When I asked the cother pharmacist, a much younger guy why he was doing this, he said he'd had enough of his boss and he'd never been told not to sell them, so he did. As for the sensation, having had my RT done with glass, digital, electronic probe and GERATHERM style thermometers, I believe it's more a connection to our past recollections and memories of the rectal temperature taking experience, especially if we had ours taken with glass-mercury thermometers. And I would not totally dismiss their being used. I'm sure that somewhere in this big USofA, and other countries, many a glass-mercury Oral & Rectal thermometer, providing it is still accurate (the mercury isn't affected) and the numbers are still plainly visible are being put to good use. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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[> [> Subject: Re: Do you prefer digital or glass thermometers? Author: Richard [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: Thursday, February 24, 2011, 03:43: pm Myself, I am a devotee of the glass mercury rectal thermometer, though I've had my RT done with digital, GERATHERM and IVAC/FILAC electronic units. I believe that the glass-mercury rectal thermometer is the most accurate thermometer we've had as far as obtaining true and accrate temperatures. But there are a few drawbacks as well. The fact that these thermometers are so fragile, great care needs to be taken with the handling of them. Then too, if they're not autoclaved, but rather cleaned and disinfected with soapy water and alcohol, the proper temperature of the soapy water must be considered. And after repeated wiping down with alcohol soaked tissues, this apparently takes a toll in that the etched information eventually starts wearing away, making it extremely difficult to read the instrument. I have one from 1952, a B-D Red Flash rectal thermometer. Better as a show piece than a usable one, as the numbers are almost non existent. The only thing about the instrument that makes it pretty interesting, is its prominent pear shaped bulb. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]