M0003819: Diagram for showing the method of use of the opthalmoscope

Date:
27 March 1934
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/31/77
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M0003819: Diagram for showing the method of use of the opthalmoscope. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

Photograph of a print publication illustration showing the method of use of the opthalmoscope, invented by Hermann von Helmholtz (1821-1894), German physicist and physician. The diagram shows the examiner reflecting a beam of light through the patient's dialated pupil, focusing the beam on the back of the eye by using a lens in his left hand.

Publication/Creation

27 March 1934

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 8 x 11 cm

Notes

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2021.

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