Eder Gastroscope
name: label: user
content: Berry, Leonidas H.
label: maker
content: Eder Instrument Co.
notes: label: Description
content: Gastroscope owned and used by Leonidas H. Berry (1902-1995), an African-American physician who worked in Chicago and specialized in gastroscopy. An inscription reads in part “EDER / INSTRUMENT CO., INC. / CHICAGO, ILL.” Dr. Berry was co-creator of the Eder-Berry gastroscope used for obtaining stomach tissue samples for direct examination.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Leonidas Berry Cited With Numerous Medical Honors,” Jet (Aug. 8, 1988): 36-37.
label: Description
content: “Dr. Leonidas Berry, 93, digestive disease expert,” Chicago Tribune (Dec. 9, 1995), p. N23.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
topic: label: Subject
content: African American
label: associated subject
content: Endoscopy
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Leonidas H. Berry, M.D.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0406.01
label: accession number
content: 1986.0406
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0406.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Gastroscope, Biopsy
label: Object Name
content: gastroscope set
label: Other Terms
content: Gastroscope, Biopsy; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 3/8 in x 36 1/8 in x 9 5/8 in; 11.1125 cm x 91.7575 cm x 24.4475 cm