Gonioscope Prism and Focalizer
name: label: maker
content: Bausch & Lomb
notes: label: Description
content: A gonioscope prism (or lens) is designed for viewing the iridocorneal angle, or the angle between the cornea and iris of an eye. The results are important in diagnosing and monitoring eye conditions associated with glaucoma. Lee Allen (1910-2006), an ocularist, illustrator, and inventor, designed the form.
label: Description
content: Ref: Lee Allen and C. S. O’Brien, “Gonioscopy Simplified By a Contact Prism,” Archives of Ophthalmology 34 (1945): 413-414.
label: Description
content: Lee Allen, Alson E. Braley, and Harvey E. Thorpe, “An Improved Gonioscopic Contact Prism,” Archives of Ophthalmology 51 (1954): 451-455.
label: Description
content: Bausch & Lomb, Opthalmic Reference Book (1947), p. 181.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Dr. J. William Rosenthal
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1981.0738.46
label: accession number
content: 1981.0738
label: catalog number
content: 1981.0738.46
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Focalizer
label: Other Terms
content: Focalizer; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/2 in x 3 3/4 in x 3 1/2 in; 3.81 cm x 9.525 cm x 8.89 cm