Ophthalmoscopes

This rare instrument and its description are seen here thanks to Dr. Rainer Tönnes, a physician and collector in Be......

Rare late 1800′s Japanese ophthalmoscope. It has a slot on the back for inserting one of three plus lenses. The......

Liebreich was born in East Prussia, Europe in 1830. He studied there and in Berlin and received his doctorate in 1853......

8 inches long. Head is 1 3/4 inches wide – Very good condition. Signed Oculus.
This the the simplest typ......

There is no consensus on who developed the slit lorgnette. It is used for determining the axis of astigmatism in the ......

Knapp was born in Dauborn, Hessen-Nassau in 1832. He became a student of Helmholtz and an assistant of von Graefe. He......

Wessely was born in Berlin in 1874. He took over the professor of ophthalmology chair from Hess in 1913 in Wurzburg. ......

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Charles Oldham studied medicine at Guy’s Hospital from 1866 to 1871. He got into the Fellowship of the Royal Colleg......

This type of scope was invented in 1885. It was developed by Arthur Henry Benson (1860-1912). He was a surgeon at the......

Around 1865 Folin commissioned Nachet in Paris to make his ophthalmoscope. It consists of a brass frame with a concav......

Vogt used the Loring ophthalmoscope as the basis for his own version in 1925. It has a tilt mirror and 13 lenses. Th......

In 1936 Amsler modified the ophthalmoscope of Eperon. Manufactured by Haag Streit AG.