Microscope
date: label: date made
content: 1913
name: label: maker
content: Zeiss, Carl
notes: label: Description
content: Small compound monocular model VIb microscope with coarse and fine focus, double nosepiece, circular stage, sub-stage diaphragm, sub-stage mirror, horseshoe base, and wooden box with extra lenses. The inscriptions read “CARL ZEISS / JENA” and “GERMANY.” The “62195” serial number indicates a date of around 1913. Another inscription reads “Neuro Lab, H.P.F.G.” A brass plate in the box reads “IMPORTED BY / ARTHUR H. THOMAS CO. PHILADELPHIA.” There are two Zeiss objectives, and two cases for Leitz objectives.
label: Description
content: This was used by Adolf Meyer (1866-1950), the Swiss-born physician who joined the Henry Phipps Psychiatric Clinic at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 1913, served as psychiatrist-in-chief at the hospital until 1941, and played a major role in establishing psychiatry as a clinical science.
label: Description
content: Ref: S. D. Lamb, <i>Pathologist of the Mind. Adolf Meyer and the Origins of American Psychiatry</i> (Baltimore, 2014).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany: Thuringia, Jena
topic: label: Subject
content: Science & Scientific Instruments
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Microscopes
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-10348.02
label: catalog number
content: M-10348.02
label: accession number
content: 242933
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microscope
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)