Ophthalmoscope
name: label: maker
content: Chas. Truax, Greene & Co.
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.
label: Description
content: The inscription on the case of this example reads “Loring Ophthalmoscope.” That on the inside reads “CHAS. TRUAX, GREENE & CO. / Physicians’ Supplies / CHICAGO, U.S.A.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Ed. G. Loring, “A Modification of the Ophthalmoscope,” <i>Transactions of the American Ophthalmological Society</i> 1 (1869): 47-51.
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
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
topic: label: associated subject
content: Ophthalmology
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1978.0235.012
label: accession number
content: 1978.0235
label: catalog number
content: 1978.0235.12
objectType: label: Object Name
content: ophthalmoscopes
label: Object Name
content: ophthalmoscope
label: Other Terms
content: Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
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content: wood (overall material)
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content: glass (overall material)
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content: leather (overall material)
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content: felt (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/4 in x 5 in x 2 5/8 in; 1.905 cm x 12.7 cm x 6.6675 cm