Ophthalmoscope
notes: label: Description
content: 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. Liebreich later introduced ophthalmoscopes of his own design. This example has six large lenses.
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: 1978.0235.010
label: accession number
content: 1978.0235
label: catalog number
content: 1978.0235.010
objectType: label: Object Name
content: ophthalmoscope
label: Other Terms
content: Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: case: 3/4 in x 5 3/8 in x 2 3/8 in; 1.905 cm x 13.6525 cm x 6.0325 cm
label: Measurements
content: scope: 5 in x 1 1/2 in x 3/8 in; 12.7 cm x 3.81 cm x .9525 cm
label: Measurements
content: large lens: 1 1/4 in x 1 1/4 in; 3.175 cm x 3.175 cm
label: Measurements
content: small lenses: 3/4 in x 3/4 in; 1.905 cm x 1.905 cm