Ophthalmic Surgical Set
name: label: maker
content: Kny-Scheerer
notes: label: Description
content: Ophthalmic set with a “THE KNY SCHERER CORPORATION NEW YORK” inscription. The firm termed this a Stevens operating set. George Thomas Stevens (1832-1921) served as a surgeon with the Union Army during the Civil War. He then became an ophthalmologist in New York City, known for having “devised a complete set of surgical instruments for the performance of surgical operations on the external muscles of the eyes.”
label: Description
content: Ref: The Kny-Scheerer Co., Instruments of Superior Quality (New York, 1915), p. 3048.
label: Description
content: “George Thomas Stevens,” American Journal of Ophthalmology 4 (1921): 552-554.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Surgery
label: Subject
content: Ophthalmology
label: Subject
content: Medicine
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Don Elliot Schwartz, M.D.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1981.0978.17
label: accession number
content: 1981.0978
label: catalog number
content: 1981.0978.17
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Kit, Optical
label: Object Name
content: surgical set, optical
label: Object Name
content: surgical set
label: Other Terms
content: Kit, Optical; Diagnostic Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: hard rubber (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic, bakelite (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, silver (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: cloth, canvas (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/2 in x 13 1/4 in x 7 5/8 in; 6.35 cm x 33.655 cm x 19.3675 cm