Lip Clamp
name: label: maker
content: Storz Instrument Company
notes: label: Description
content: Ramon Castroviejo (1905-1987) was an ophthalmologist from Spain who attended medical school at the University of Madrid and spent most of his career in New York City, and who developed techniques for transplanting corneal tissue from people who had recently died into damaged eyes of living patients. The Storz instrument firm made several instruments to his designs.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Ramon Castroviejo, 82, Developer of Cornea Transplant Procedures,” New York Times (Jan. 5, 1987), p. B4.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Storz Instrument Company, thru Dr. Ramon Castroviejo
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1982.0048.019
label: accession number
content: 1982.0048
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0048.019
objectType: label: Object Name
content: clamp
label: Other Terms
content: Surgery
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3.5 cm x 9.7 cm x 2 cm; 1 3/8 in x 3 13/16 in x 13/16 in