Phorometer
name: label: maker
content: E. B. Meyrowitz, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: A phorometer detects and measures imbalance in the extrinsic muscles of eyes. David Washburn Wells, a professor of ophthalmology in Boston, introduced a version consisting of a single ten-diopter prism and a weighted disk. John Herbert Claiborne (1861-1922), an ophthalmologist who taught at the Cornell Medical School and the New York Polyclinic, introduced a modification of the Wells Handy Phorometer in 1910. The inscription on this example of that instrument reads “E. B. MEYROWITZ.”
label: Description
content: Ref: David Washburn Wells, <i>The Stereoscope in Ophthalmology</i> (Boston, 1918), p. 19.
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
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Dr. J. Staiman
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-07044
label: catalog number
content: M-07044
label: accession number
content: 216897
objectType: label: Object Name
content: ophthalmoscopes
label: Object Name
content: ophthalmoscope
label: Other Terms
content: Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/2 in x 3 in x 1 3/4 in; 1.27 cm x 7.62 cm x 4.445 cm