Optical Tonometer
notes: label: Description
content: An optical tonometer determines intraocular pressure by measuring the resistance of a cornea to indentation. The basic form was invented by a German professor in 1862. This example is based on the design that Hjalmar August Schiőtz, a Norwegian ophthalmologist, presented to the Norwegian Medical Society in 1905.
label: Description
content: Ref: V. Mueller & Co., <i>Surgeon’s Instruments, Office and Hospital Equipment</i> (1916), p. 3.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1978.0874.04
label: accession number
content: 1978.0874
label: catalog number
content: 1978.0874.04
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Tonometer
label: Other Terms
content: Tonometer; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 in x 6 in x 3 in; 2.54 cm x 15.24 cm x 7.62 cm