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Chief R. Deerfoot
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A friend of mine is
trying to find information about Dr. Chief R. Deerfoot. Someone has
offered to donate a heartometer, made by the Cameron Heartometer Co., to a local
museum with which she is connected. The heartometer, a quasi-quackery
instrument used to measure blood pressure, was made for Chief R. Deerfoot (ca.
1930, she thinks). Early searches have provided little information, except that
he may have been an evangelist in the Tennessee or Oklahoma area.
The label on the
heartometer reads:
Cameron Heartometer
Company
Made for
Dr Chief R
Deerfoot
Chicago,
USA
The museum to which
it has been offered is in Alabama, and they don't know of a connection with
Chief Deerfoot. If someone has information about him, or knows of a more
appropriate repository for his heartometer, please let me know and I will
relay the info to her.
Thanks in advance
for any help,
Vicki
Johnson
Dorothy Carpenter
Medical Archives
Wake Forest
University School of Medicine