Cheiroscope
name: label: maker
content: American Optical Company
notes: label: Description
content: A cheiroscope is an orthoptic instrument for providing training to restore normal binocular vision for people with squint or other binocular vision anomalies. Ernest Edmund Maddox (1863-1933), a British surgeon and ophthalmologist, introduced the form in 1929. An inscription on this example reads, in part: “MADDOX CHEIROSCOPE / . . . / AMERICAN OPTICAL CO. / SOUTHBRIDGE, MASS. U.S.A.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Ernest E. Maddox, "Demonstration of the Cheiroscope," <i>Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine</i> 23 (November 1929): 48–55.
topic: label: associated subject
content: Orthoptics
label: associated subject
content: Ophthalmology
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Ruth Fisher
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.302437.12
label: catalog number
content: M-14618
label: accession number
content: 302437
label: catalog number
content: 302437.12
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Cheiroscope
label: Other Terms
content: Cheiroscope; Diagnostic Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 1/8 in x 14 1/2 in x 11 in; 30.7975 cm x 36.83 cm x 27.94 cm