Ophthalmoscope
notes: label: Description
content: In 1851, Hermann von Helmholtz, a German professor of physiology, devised an ophthalmoscope for examining the interior of an eye. Richard Liebreich (1830-1917), a German-Jewish ophthalmologist, developed a modification of that instrument soon thereafter. An inscription on the case of this example reads “Augenspiegel / nach / Dr. LIEBRICH.”
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: Dr. J. Staiman
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-07039
label: catalog number
content: M-07039
label: accession number
content: 216897
objectType: label: Object Name
content: ophthalmoscopes
label: Object Name
content: Liebreich ophthalmoscopes
label: Other Terms
content: Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: case: 3/4 in x 5 1/4 in x 2 1/4 in; 1.905 cm x 13.335 cm x 5.715 cm
label: Measurements
content: large lens: 1 1/4 in x 1 1/4 in x 1/8 in; 3.175 cm x 3.175 cm x .3175 cm
label: Measurements
content: scope: 4 3/4 in x 1 1/2 in x 3/8 in; 12.065 cm x 3.81 cm x .9525 cm
label: Measurements
content: small lens: 3/4 in x 3/4 in x 1/8 in; 1.905 cm x 1.905 cm x .3175 cm