Gastroscope
date: label: Date made
content: 1929
name: label: maker
content: Wolf, Georg
notes: label: Description
content: Rudolph Schindler (1888-1968) was a German-Jewish physician and gastroenterologist who invented a flexible gastroscope for viewing the interior of a stomach. This early example was made by Georg. Wolf, a medical instrument maker in Berlin, circa 1929. Dr. Schindler brought it with him when he moved to the United States in the 1930s.
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: Germany: Berlin, Berlin
topic: 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: Olav A. Blomquist, M.D.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.315417.01
label: catalog number
content: 315417.01
label: accession number
content: 315417
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Wolf-Schindler Flexible Gastroscop
label: Object Name
content: gastroscope
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: rubber (body material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (tip material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood, oak (box material)
label: Measurements
content: gastroscope: 67 cm x 3.75 cm; 26 3/8 in x 1 1/2 in
label: Measurements
content: case for gastroscope: 82 cm x 10 cm x 6.5 cm; 32 9/32 in x 3 15/16 in x 2 9/16 in