Ophthalmoscope
name: label: maker
content: E. B. Meyrowitz, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: Andrew Stanford Morton (1848-1927), an ophthalmologist at University College, London, and Moorfields Eye Hospital, introduced a new student’s ophthalmoscope in 1884. The inscription on the inside of the lid of the case of this example reads “ESTAB. 1875 / E. B. Meyrowitz INC. / LONDON-NEW YORK-PARIS.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Andrew Stanford Morton, <i>An Improved Student’s Opthalmoscope</i> (1884).
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
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Miss E. P. Custis
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-06945
label: catalog number
content: M-06945.02
label: accession number
content: 214851
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Case
label: Object Name
content: ophthalmoscope, set
label: Other Terms
content: Case; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 3/4 in x 11 5/8 in x 1 7/8 in; 4.445 cm x 29.5275 cm x 4.7625 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 3/4 in x 11 3/4 in x 1 3/4 in; 4.445 cm x 29.845 cm x 4.445 cm