Ophthalmoscope
notes: label: Description
content: “In the whole history of medicine there is no more beautiful episode than the invention of the ophthalmoscope, and physiology has few greater triumphs.” So wrote Edward Greely Loring on the first page of his <i>Textbook of Ophthalmology</i> (New York, 1886). Loring also designed several ophthalmoscopes with small lenses on the edge of a disc, such that rotation would bring up the lens best suited to the eye under examination.
label: Description
content: Ref: Ed. G. Loring, “A Modification of the Ophthalmoscope,” <i>Transactions of the American Ophthalmological Society</i> 1 (1869): 47-51.
label: Description
content: Ed. G. Loring, “A New Modification of the Ophthalmoscope,” <i>American Journal of the Medical Sciences</i> 67 (1874): 133-135.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: 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: 1978.0235.006
label: accession number
content: 1978.0235
label: catalog number
content: 1978.0235.06
objectType: label: Object Name
content: ophthalmoscope
label: Object Name
content: ophthalmoscopes
label: Other Terms
content: Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: case: 5/8 in x 4 1/4 in x 2 1/4 in; 1.5875 cm x 10.795 cm x 5.715 cm
label: Measurements
content: scope: 7 in x 1 3/4 in x 1/4 in; 17.78 cm x 4.445 cm x .635 cm