Object Details
- E. B. Meyrowitz, Inc.
- Description
- “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 Textbook of Ophthalmology (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.
- The inscription on the case of this example reads “LORING / OPTHALMOSCOPE.” That inside the case reads “E. B. Meyrowitz / 104 EAST 23RD STREET / NEW-YORK.”
- Ref: Ed. G. Loring, “A Modification of the Ophthalmoscope,” Transactions of the American Ophthalmological Society 1 (1869): 47-51.
- Ed. G. Loring, “A New Modification of the Ophthalmoscope,” American Journal of the Medical Sciences 67 (1874): 133-135.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- ID Number
- 1978.0235.004
- accession number
- 1978.0235
- catalog number
- 1978.0235.04
- Object Name
- ophthalmoscopes
- ophthalmoscope
- Other Terms
- Medicine
- Physical Description
- metal (overall material)
- glass (overall material)
- wood (overall material)
- felt (overall material)
- plastic (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1 1/8 in x 4 in x 2 5/8 in; 2.8575 cm x 10.16 cm x 6.6675 cm
- place made
- United States: New York, New York City
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- National Museum of American History
- associated subject
- Ophthalmology
- Record ID
- nmah_735218
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-543e-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
