Bailliart Type Ophthalmodynamometer
name: label: maker
content: Handaya Co., Ltd.
notes: label: Description
content: Paul Alfred Marie Bailliart (1877-1969), a prominent ophthalmologist in Paris, developed an instrument, sometimes termed a tonometer, to measure the blood pressure in the central artery of eyes. The inscription on the dial of this example reads “OPTHALMO DYNAMOMETRE DU DR BAILLIART / HANDAYA / PATENT.” Handaya was a surgical and medical instrument firm in Tokyo, Japan.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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: Donation of George E. Burch, Jr., M.D., Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1980.0186.160
label: catalog number
content: 1980.0186.160
label: accession number
content: 1980.0186
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Ophthalmodynamometer
label: Object Name
content: ophthalmodynamometer
label: Other Terms
content: Ophthalmodynamometer; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/2 in x 7 7/8 in x 3 1/8 in; 3.81 cm x 20.0025 cm x 7.9375 cm