Phorometer
date: label: date made
content: ca 1900
name: label: maker
content: E. B. Meyrowitz, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: A phorometer measures the imbalance of the extrinsic muscles of an eye. An inscription on this brass phorometer reads “E. B. MEYROWITZ / NEW YORK / 586.” The form was devised by George T. Stevens (1831-1921), a physician who served with the Union Army during the Civil War, returned to Albany after the War, and taught at the Albany Medical College.
label: Description
content: Ref: A. S. Aloe Co., Illustrated and Priced Catalogue of Superior Surgical Instruments, Physicians’ Supplies, and Hospital Furnishings (St Louis, 1893), p. 188.
label: Description
content: George T. Stevens, A Treatise on the Motor Apparatus of the Eyes (Philadelphia, 1906), pp. 272-277.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: associated subject
content: Orthoptics
label: associated subject
content: Ophthalmology
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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: 1984.0310.02
label: catalog number
content: 1984.0310.02
label: accession number
content: 1984.0310
objectType: label: Object Name
content: ophthalmic muscle imbalance instrument
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: p7115: 39 in x 72 in x 48 in; 99.06 cm x 182.88 cm x 121.92 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 37 in x 7 in x 2 1/2 in; 93.98 cm x 17.78 cm x 6.35 cm