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

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.

27 March 1934

1 photograph glass plate negative; 8 x 11 cm

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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