Cytoscope
name: label: maker
content: Hartwig, Paul
notes: label: Description
content: A cystoscope is used to examine the inside of a bladder. In 1878, Maximilian Carl-Friedrich Nitze (1848-1906), a German urologist, unveiled a cystoscope that he had created in collaboration with Joseph Leiter, a Viennese instrument maker. The “P. HARTWIG / BERLIN” inscription in the lid of the case of this example refers to the German instrument maker, Paul Hartwig.
label: Description
content: Ref: Willy Meyer, “The Progress of Cytoscopy in the Last Three Years,” <i>The New York Medical Journal</i> (Jan. 30, 1892): 113-119.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: 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: Gift of The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.302606.180.02
label: accession number
content: 302606
label: catalog number
content: 302606.180.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Cystoscope
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: cotton (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: red (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: blue (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 34.4 cm x 9.2 cm x 3.5 cm; 13 9/16 in x 3 5/8 in x 1 3/8 in