Ophthalmoscope
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. This unsigned example has 24 lenses.
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content: Ref: Ed. G. Loring, “A Modification of the Ophthalmoscope,” <i>Transactions of the American Ophthalmological Society</i> 1 (1869): 47-51.
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content: Ed. G. Loring, “A New Modification of the Ophthalmoscope,” <i>American Journal of the Medical Sciences</i> 67 (1874): 133-135.
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content: This example is the type devised by Loring.
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: Donald Olsen
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content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1987.0886.01
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content: 1987.0886.01
label: accession number
content: 1987.0886
objectType: label: Object Name
content: ophthalmoscope
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/2 in x 1 5/8 in x 7 in; 1.27 cm x 4.1275 cm x 17.78 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 18 cm x 4.2 cm x 1.5 cm; 7 3/32 in x 1 21/32 in x 19/32 in