Ophthalmoscope
name: label: maker
content: Chas. A. Euker & 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: This is an example of Loring’s 15-lens ophthalmoscope with quadrant that, when new, cost $30. An inscription on the box reads “LORING / OPTHALMOSCOPE.” That on the instrument reads “CHAS. A. EUKER / BALTIMORE, MD.”
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
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: University of Maryland, School of Medicine, Department of Physiology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-09661
label: catalog number
content: M-09661
label: accession number
content: 233572
objectType: label: Object Name
content: opthalmoscope
label: Object Name
content: ophthalmoscope
label: Other Terms
content: Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: leather (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/8 in x 4 in x 2 5/8 in; 2.8575 cm x 10.16 cm x 6.6675 cm