In a method for testing a disposable on a medical examination appliance, more particularly on a tonometer, wherein the medical examination appliance comprises a disposable holding apparatus, on which a disposable is held and, in particular, able to be brought into contact with a patient's eye for an applanation tonometry measurement, and which comprises a detection device, by means of which a physical property of the disposable can be measured, a measured value of the physical property of the disposable is ascertained by means of the detection device.
