Old fashioned glass thermometer

Someone commented on one of my pictures that glass thermometers are better than the modern digital ones.

Are they easy to get hold of now?

I'd really like to experience one

You can find them on Amazon and also eBay.

@Bratinpjs - I do like the feeling of a glass thermometer over a digital one. Here on the states, eBay is where I have found mine.

If you don't mind galinstan instead of mercury, Geratherm makes glass thermometers still. Hell, they even carry them in pharmacies.

Edit: I did not realize you are in the UK, availability and brands may be different there. Here in upstate NY I've noticed the modern glass ones at a few pharmacies.

I am a huge fan of geratherm glass thermometers, just insert a cold one of these in my butt...

I really love them too. Geratherm is to get a hold of - but check out amazon. You can get lucky 😃

You can find some of them on UK Amazon.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Geratherm-classic-Classic-Thermometer/dp/B000QGJS8I/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1510697752&sr=8-1&keywords=geratherm+thermometer

i recommend this one.it is slightly bigger.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Geratherm-Analogue-thermometer-control-mercury/dp/B00238ZDL8/ref=sr_1_1_s_it?s=drugstore&ie=UTF8&qid=1510697786&sr=1-1&keywords=geratherm+basal+thermometer

Glass thermometers are hard to find, for a decent price. "Epay," is the only venue for them, outside of occasional flea market finds. Also look at veterinary supplies and the surgicalshop.com website. Hopefully that helps.

I used to have 3 of those old fashion glass thermometers, but when I got a digital one, I rid of them and found out that my Grandma had on and I still got it. It is hard for me to read because I am so well used to the digital one. I had a rash on my face and my mom asked me if I had something to drink during the last 30 minutes and I told her that I had a cookie. My mom told me to get the thermometer and check my temperature. I told her that she will have results in 5 seconds. I stuck that digital thermometer under my tongue and 5 seconds later, the results were 97.2. Subject dropped and went to the doctor for meds.

@Kermit79 digital and oral are no fun, lol! ? Rectal is the only way to go! LOL

Glass thermometers aren't the issue...it's the mercury that is in them that has caused them to be pulled from shelves, and banned in many states and countries. I believe there are thermometers still made that are the same design as the older glass-mercury types, except the substance used is not mercury. It is something else, I guess something like the substance in the GERATHERM thermometers. It looks like mercury, responds similarly as the instrument is used, but is not toxic, like mercury.

The glass fever thermometer that had mercury was, especially when used rectally, for accuracy, considered what is often referred to as "The Gold Standard" of temperature taking. And usually, differentiating from digital and electronic probe types, the time of insertion (rectal reading) is about three minutes as opposed to a much less time required by digital and electronic probe.

Thanks for the info

Maybe the next photo I'll post on here will be of a glass thermometer in my bottom :-)

I have never bought one there but have seen the old glass ones on eBay along with all kinds of old medical stuff.

Classic thermometers are the best. I hide digital ones

Impossible to get in stores here in the US, but you can still purchase them from Chinese medical supply companies usually in bulk. I’ve done it and received a small box with 12 thermometers. Not that expensive.

Removing all clothing for the purpose of taking a youngster's temperature rectally with a glass rectal thermometer should have not been not at all necessary. Instead, the of a youngster should lie face down on a firm surface with trousers and underwear pulled down to the knees.