Gastroscope, Schindler-type
date: label: date made
content: ca 1950
name: label: maker
content: Wolf, Georg
notes: label: Description
content: Rudolph Schindler (1888-1968) was a German physician and gastroenterologist who invented flexible gastroscopes for viewing the interior of stomachs. This example was made by Georg. Wolf, a medical instrument maker in Berlin, circa 1950.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Dr. Rudolph Schindler Dead at 80; Physician Invented Gastroscope,” New York Times (Sept. 9, 1968), p. 47.
label: Description
content: Audrey B. Davis, “Rudolph Schindler’s Role in the Development of Gastroscopy,” <i>Bulletin of the History of Medicine</i> 46 (1972): 150-170.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany: Berlin, Berlin
topic: label: associated subject
content: Endoscopy
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: O. A. Blomquist, M.D.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-13893
label: catalog number
content: M-13893
label: accession number
content: 300970
objectType: label: Object Name
content: gastroscope
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 26 3/8 in x 1 1/2 in; x 66.9925 cm x 3.81 cm