Cheiroscope
notes: label: Description
content: A cheiroscope is an orthoptic instrument for providing training to restore normal binocular vision for people with squint or other binocular vision anomalies. Ernest Edmund Maddox (1863-1933), a British surgeon and ophthalmologist, introduced the form in 1929.
label: Description
content: Ref: Ernest E. Maddox, "Demonstration of the Cheiroscope," Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine 23 (November 1929): 48–55.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: associated subject
content: Orthoptics
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: MG.302437.16
label: catalog number
content: 302437.16
label: accession number
content: 302437
label: collector/donor number
content: 16
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Cheiroscope
label: Other Terms
content: Cheiroscope; Diagnostic Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood; glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/2 in x 10 in x 5 in; 13.97 cm x 25.4 cm x 12.7 cm