Ruddock Peritoneoscope
date: label: date made
content: after 1934
name: label: maker
content: American Cytoscope Makers, Inc. Wappler
notes: label: Description
content: A label in the lid of the wooden case reads in part “RUDDOCK PERITONEOSCOPE / (Dr. John C. Ruddock Los Angeles, Cal.) / with / McCarthy Foroblique Visual System / MADE IN U.S.A. BY / AMERICAN CYTOSCOPE MAKERS, INC. /. . . / NEW YORK, N.Y.” John Carroll Ruddock (1891-1964) was an American internist who, in 1934, devised an instrument for looking into the peritoneal cavity. The “Dr. E. L. Kellogg” inscription on the case is that of Edward Leland Kellogg (d. 1948), a New York gastroenterologist and author of The Duodenum, Its Structure and Function, Its Diseases and Their Medical and Surgical Treatment (1933).
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
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: ZZ.RSN83549U00
objectType: label: Object Name
content: cystoscopes
label: Other Terms
content: Diagnostic Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 in x 17 in x 8 1/4 in; 7.62 cm x 43.18 cm x 20.955 cm