Ophthalmoscope
name: label: maker
content: Hunter, Hugh W.
notes: label: Description
content: “In the whole history of medicine there is no more beautiful episode than the invention of the ophthalmoscope, and physiology has few greater triumphs.” So wrote Edward Greely Loring (1837-1888) on the first page of his <i>Textbook of Ophthalmology</i> (New York, 1886). Loring also designed several ophthalmoscopes with small lenses on the edge of a disc, such that rotation would bring up the lens best suited to the eye under examination. The “H. W. HUNTER, NEW YORK” inscription on the ivory handle of this example refers to Hugh W. Hunter, an instrument maker who worked with Loring.
label: Description
content: Ref: Edward G. Loring, “Determination of the Optical Condition of the Eye,” <i>American Journal of the Medical Sciences</i> 118 (1870): 323-348.
label: Description
content: Ed. G. Loring, “A New Modification of the Ophthalmoscope,” <i>American Journal of the Medical Sciences</i> 67 (1874): 133-135.
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: Dr. J. Staiman
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-07040
label: catalog number
content: M-07040
label: accession number
content: 216897
objectType: label: Object Name
content: ophthalmoscope
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 1/4 in x 1 3/4 in x 1/4 in; 18.415 cm x 4.445 cm x .635 cm