Ophthalmoscope
name: label: Associated Name
content: Baltimore Optical Co.
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 (1837-1888), 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: This is an example of Loring’s 15-lens ophthalmoscope with quadrant that, when new, cost $30. The inscription on the box reads "Loring / Ophthalmoscope." That on the inside reads “BALTIMORE OPTICAL CO. / Wholesale Opticians / BALTIMORE, MD.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Edward G. Loring, “Determination of the Optical Condition of the Eye,” <i>American Journal of the Medical Sciences</i> 118 (1870): 323-348.
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: Description
content: James W. Queen & Co., <i>Priced and Illustrated Catalogue of Ophthalmological Instruments</i> (Philadelphia, 1889), p. 42.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: associated subject
content: Ophthalmology
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
label: See more items in
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-07041
label: catalog number
content: M-07041
label: accession number
content: 216897
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Opthalmoscope
label: Object Name
content: ophthalmoscope
label: Other Terms
content: Opthalmoscope; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: case: 1 in x 4 1/4 in x 2 1/4 in; 2.54 cm x 10.795 cm x 5.715 cm
label: Measurements
content: scope: 4 1/4 in x 1 1/2 in x 1/4 in; 10.795 cm x 3.81 cm x .635 cm
label: Measurements
content: lens: 1 1/2 in x 1 1/2 in x 1/8 in; 3.81 cm x 3.81 cm x .3175 cm