Nasopharyngoscope
notes: label: Description
content: A nasopharyngoscope is a medical instrument used to examine the back of the throat. This example was devised by Edgar M. Holmes (1868-1918), a graduate of the Harvard Medical School who specialized in aural surgery, and made by the Electro Surgical Instrument Co. in Rochester, N.Y.
label: Description
content: Ref: P. Macleod Yearsley, “Holmes’s Electric Nasopharygoscope,” Proceedings, Royal Society of Medicine 5 (Otol. Sect.) (1912): 11-12.
label: Description
content: “Dr. E. M. Holmes’ Funeral,” Boston Globe (Sept. 22, 1918), p. 8.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Dr. Edgar M. Holmes
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1983.0741.01
label: accession number
content: 1983.0741
label: catalog number
content: 1983.0741.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: nasopharyngoscope
label: Object Name
content: surgical instrument
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 5/8 in x 1 1/4 in; 16.83385 cm x 3.175 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 3/8 in x 6 1/2 in x 1 1/4 in; 3.4925 cm x 16.51 cm x 3.175 cm