Cytoscope
name: label: maker
content: Hartwig, Paul
notes: label: Description
content: A cystoscope is used to examine the inside of bladders. In 1878, Maximilian Carl-Friedrich Nitze (1848-1906), a German urologist, unveiled a cystoscope that he had created in collaboration with Joseph Leiter, a Viennese instrument maker. The inscriptions on this example read “Kystoskop / nach / Dr. M. Nitze” and “P. Hartwig / BERLIN S.W.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Willy Meyer, “The Progress of Cytoscopy in the Last Three Years,” <i>The New York Medical Journal</i> (Jan. 30, 1892): 113-119.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany: Berlin, Berlin
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.302606.183
label: accession number
content: 302606
label: catalog number
content: 302606.183
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Case
label: Object Name
content: cytoscope
label: Object Name
content: surgical set
label: Object Name
content: kytoscope
label: Object Name
content: %kytoscope%
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content: fabric, velvet (overall material)
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content: fabric, silk (overall material)
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content: leather (overall material)
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content: purple (overall color)
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content: metal, steel (overall material)
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content: fabric, cotton (overall material)
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content: glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 5 cm x 30.5 cm x 9.5 cm; 1 15/16 in x 12 in x 3 3/4 in
label: Measurements
content: cystoscope: 28.5 cm x 3.7 cm; 11 1/4 in x 1 7/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 in x 12 in x 4 1/8 in; 5.08 cm x 30.48 cm x 10.4775 cm