Ophthalmoscope
name: label: Associated Name
content: Johns Hopkins University
label: maker
content: Bausch & Lomb
notes: label: Description
content: The inscription on this instrument reads “BAUSCH & LOMB OPT. CO. / ROCHESTER, N.Y., U.S.A. / MAY OPTHALMOSCOPE.” This form, developed by (or for) Charles H. May (1861-1943), a prominent ophthalmologist in New York City, has batteries for an electric light in the handle.
label: Description
content: Ref: Charles H. May, “The May Electric Opthalmoscope,” <i>Transactions of the American Ophthalmological Society</i> 14 (1915): 165-167.
label: Description
content: Charles H. May, <i>Manual of the Diseases of the Eye</i> (New York, 1911).
label: Description
content: This item is part of a collection of equipment and instruments from the laboratory and clinic of allergist Dr. Leslie N. Gay (1891 - 1978). Gay received his medical degree from Johns Hopkins University in 1917. In 1923 he founded an allergy clinic at the university and served as director for 36 years. He and clinic colleague Paul E. Carliner developed Dramamine (dimenhydrinate), a preventative and cure for seasickness.
label: Description
content: This material was donated to the Smithsonian in 1979 by Gay’s son, Dr. Leslie N. Gay, Jr.
label: Description
content: [SEE: Gay L. N., Carliner P. E. (1949). The prevention and treatment of motion sickness. 1. Seasickness. <i>Science</i> 109, 359.]
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Rochester
label: used
content: United States: Maryland, Baltimore
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: Gift of Dr. Leslie N. Gay, Jr.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1979.0306.17
label: accession number
content: 1979.0306
objectType: label: Object Name
content: ophthalmoscope
label: Object Name
content: ophthalmoscopes
label: Other Terms
content: Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: case: 1 3/4 in x 9 3/8 in x 2 3/8 in; 4.445 cm x 23.8125 cm x 6.0325 cm
label: Measurements
content: scope: 8 3/4 in x 1 3/4 in x 1 1/8 in; 22.225 cm x 4.445 cm x 2.8575 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 24 cm x 6 cm x 4.6 cm; 9 7/16 in x 2 3/8 in x 1 13/16 in