Object Details
- Zeiss, Carl
- Description
- Small compound monocular model VIb microscope with coarse and fine focus, double nosepiece, circular stage, sub-stage diaphragm, sub-stage mirror, horseshoe base, and wooden box with extra lenses. The inscriptions read “CARL ZEISS / JENA” and “GERMANY.” The “62195” serial number indicates a date of around 1913. Another inscription reads “Neuro Lab, H.P.F.G.” A brass plate in the box reads “IMPORTED BY / ARTHUR H. THOMAS CO. PHILADELPHIA.” There are two Zeiss objectives, and two cases for Leitz objectives.
- This was used by Adolf Meyer (1866-1950), the Swiss-born physician who joined the Henry Phipps Psychiatric Clinic at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 1913, served as psychiatrist-in-chief at the hospital until 1941, and played a major role in establishing psychiatry as a clinical science.
- Ref: S. D. Lamb, Pathologist of the Mind. Adolf Meyer and the Origins of American Psychiatry (Baltimore, 2014).
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
- 1913
- ID Number
- MG.M-10348.02
- catalog number
- M-10348.02
- accession number
- 242933
- Object Name
- microscope
- Physical Description
- brass (overall material)
- glass (overall material)
- place made
- Germany: Thuringia, Jena
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- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Microscopes
- Science & Mathematics
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Science & Scientific Instruments
- Record ID
- nmah_895153
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a7-45c5-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
