Gastroscope
date: label: date made
content: ca 1930?
name: label: maker
content: Wolf, Georg
notes: label: Description
content: Rudolph Schindler (1888-1968) was a German physician who invented a flexible gastroscope for viewing the interior of a stomach. In the 1930s, when the Nazis came to power, Dr. Schindler (whose father was Jewish) moved to the United States. This early instrument was found in the Department of Medicine at the University of Chicago, where Dr. Schindler worked for several years before moving on to Los Angeles. A ribbon in the case reads “SCHINDLER FLEXIBLE GASTROSCOPE / MANUFACTURED BY / METRO-TEC, CHICAGO, U.S.A.”
label: Description
content: Ref: “Dr. Rudolph Schindler Dead at 80; Physician Invented Gastroscope,” New York Times (Sept. 9, 1968), p. 47.
label: Description
content: Audrey B. Davis, “Rudolph Schindler’s Role in the Development of Gastroscopy,” <i>Bulletin of the History of Medicine</i> 46 (1972): 150-170.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
label: place made
content: Germany: Berlin, Berlin
topic: label: Subject
content: Jews
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 Dr. Joseph Kirsner, MD
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-13098
label: catalog number
content: M-13098
label: accession number
content: 288765
objectType: label: Object Name
content: gastroscope
label: Object Name
content: endoscope
label: Object Name
content: Schindler-Type gastroscope
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/4 in x 34 1/4 in x 7 in; 8.255 cm x 86.995 cm x 17.78 cm