Ophthalmoscope
name: label: Associated Name
content: Johns Hopkins University
label: maker
content: Welch Allyn, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: Francis A. Welch (d. 1915) was a New York physician who designed a hand-held, direct illuminating ophthalmoscope, and partnered with William Noah Allyn to make and market it. The new firm, known as Welch Allyn, was located in Auburn, N.Y.; it moved to Skaneateles in 1953.
label: Description
content: Ref: Francis A. Welch, “Ophthalmoscope,” U.S. Patent 1,166,287 (Dec. 28, 1915).
label: Description
content: William G. Allyn, <i>Welch Allyn: An American Success Story</i> (1996).
label: Description
content: This item is part of a collection of equipment and instruments from the laboratory and clinic of allergist Dr. Leslie N. Gay (1891 - 1978). Gay received his medical degree from Johns Hopkins University in 1917. In 1923 he founded an allergy clinic at the university and served as director for 36 years. He and clinic colleague Paul E. Carliner developed Dramamine (dimenhydrinate), a preventative and cure for seasickness.
label: Description
content: This material was donated to the Smithsonian in 1979 by Gay’s son, Dr. Leslie N. Gay, Jr.
label: Description
content: [SEE: Gay L. N., Carliner P. E. (1949). The prevention and treatment of motion sickness. 1. Seasickness. <i>Science</i> 109, 359.]
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: used
content: United States: Maryland, Baltimore
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: Gift of Dr. Leslie N. Gay, Jr.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1979.0306.18
label: catalog number
content: 1979.0306.18
label: accession number
content: 1979.0306
objectType: label: Object Name
content: ophthalmoscope
label: Object Name
content: ophthalmoscopes
label: Other Terms
content: Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: leather (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: case: 2 1/4 in x 10 in x 2 1/4 in; 5.715 cm x 25.4 cm x 5.715 cm
label: Measurements
content: scope: 9 in x 1 1/2 in x 1 5/8 in; 22.86 cm x 3.81 cm x 4.1275 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 25.5 cm x 6 cm x 5 cm; 10 1/32 in x 2 3/8 in x 1 31/32 in