Corneal Scissors
name: label: maker
content: Storz Instrument Company
notes: label: Description
content: This type of corneal scissors was associated with Ramon Castroveijo (1904-1987), an eye surgeon who was born in Spain, who spent most of his working life in the United States, and who was known particularly for his work with corneal transplants. These belonged to Milton Elliott Randolph (1905-1992), an ophthalmologist who taught at the Wilmer Eye Institute of the Johns Hopkins Medical School in Baltimore. They were made by Storz.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Dr. M. Elliott Randolph, Ophthalmologist at Hopkins,” Baltimore Sun (Feb. 21, 1992).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Spanish Americans
label: associated subject
content: Ophthalmology
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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: 1984.0820.05
label: catalog number
content: 1984.0820.05
label: accession number
content: 1984.0820
objectType: label: Object Name
content: scissors
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/16 in x 1 1/8 in x 3/8 in; 10.31875 cm x 2.8575 cm x .9525 cm