Ophthalmoscope
notes: label: Description
content: The inscription on the case of this ophthalmoscope reads “Augenspeigel / DR. LIEBREICH.” Richard Liebreich (1830-1917) was a German-Jewish ophthalmologist who worked for Hermann von Helmholtz in the early 1850s and saw an early example of his ophthalmoscope.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: associated subject
content: Ophthalmology
setName: label: See more items in
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: 1978.0235.007
label: accession number
content: 1978.0235
label: catalog number
content: 1978.0235.007
objectType: label: Object Name
content: ophthalmoscopes
label: Object Name
content: ophthalmoscope
label: Other Terms
content: Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: felt (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 in x 5 1/2 in x 2 1/2 in; 2.54 cm x 13.97 cm x 6.35 cm