Object Details
- Wolf, Georg
- Description
- Rudolph Schindler (1888-1968) was a German physician who invented a flexible gastroscope for viewing the interior of a stomach. In the 1930s, when the Nazis came to power, Dr. Schindler (whose father was Jewish) moved to the United States. This early instrument was found in the Department of Medicine at the University of Chicago, where Dr. Schindler worked for several years before moving on to Los Angeles. A ribbon in the case reads “SCHINDLER FLEXIBLE GASTROSCOPE / MANUFACTURED BY / METRO-TEC, CHICAGO, U.S.A.”
- Ref: “Dr. Rudolph Schindler Dead at 80; Physician Invented Gastroscope,” New York Times (Sept. 9, 1968), p. 47.
- Audrey B. Davis, “Rudolph Schindler’s Role in the Development of Gastroscopy,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 46 (1972): 150-170.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Dr. Joseph Kirsner, MD
- ca 1930?
- ID Number
- MG.M-13098
- catalog number
- M-13098
- accession number
- 288765
- Object Name
- gastroscope
- endoscope
- Schindler-Type gastroscope
- Measurements
- overall: 3 1/4 in x 34 1/4 in x 7 in; 8.255 cm x 86.995 cm x 17.78 cm
- place made
- United States: Illinois, Chicago
- Germany: Berlin, Berlin
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Jews
- associated subject
- Endoscopy
- Record ID
- nmah_1377644
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ac-f1c0-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
