Ophthalmodynamometer
name: label: maker
content: Matalene Surgical Instrument Co.
notes: label: Description
content: Paul Alfred Marie Bailliart (1877-1969), a prominent ophthalmologist in Paris, developed an instrument, sometimes termed a tonometer, to measure the blood pressure in the central artery of eyes. The inscription on the case of this example reads “BAILLIART OPTHALMO DYNAMOMETER / MATALENE / SURGICAL INSTRUMENT CO. Inc. / NEW YORK, N.Y.” The inscription on the handle reads “MATALENE.”
label: Description
content: E. B. Meyrowitz Instruments became the Matalene Surgical Instrument Co. in 1960.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: 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: Donation of George E. Burch, Jr., M.D., Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1980.0186.162
label: accession number
content: 1980.0186
label: catalog number
content: 1980.0186.162
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Ophthalmodynamometer
label: Object Name
content: opthalmodynamometer
label: Object Name
content: ophthalmodynamometer
label: Other Terms
content: Opthalmodynamometer; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/8 in x 6 3/8 in x 2 3/8 in; 2.8575 cm x 16.1925 cm x 6.0325 cm