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  • Collection: Ophthalmology

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Cover stamp: G.F. Vail, MD.

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In the original box.
Pat. Ap'DT for

CHIDSEY + PARTRIDGE, BOSTON.
Small note: Company existed from 1886-1900

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Box with slide closure

Old tag: Birge, A MD. M. 1976-016

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Fixation dominance: (One eye stronger than another)
Buckram box with multiple plastic discs with slight difference between matching pictures and words.

Includes:  Velvet lined box with 11 glass eyeballs.  Label: Shell blue  Another box - partially full of eyeballs Attached label: Dr. Waite. Hartford Connecticut 4/12/1921 Gray brown reform.  Mfg: Mager + Coucelmann, New York.  Box: “Hand Blown…

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For insertion of measuring lenses. Includes various scales and locking screws
(missing one ear piece but seen in another box - to be reunited)

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Glass screw on handle, fitted velvet case, leather covered metal.

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Label on cover: SHELL BROWN 50

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(used for heat treatment of scleritis)

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Inside cover: “Eye case PAR. 1914 M. MD 1917. G.P. Pilling + Son CO. Philadelphia. Contracted dated April 29, 1918.” Contains HMS card describing contents:  “Noye’s eyelid retractor, Jaeger’s iridectomy knife, Graefe’s cataract knife, Noye’s…

Battery operated.

Used by Dr. St. John
Donated by Henry Birge M. 1976-023

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Both metal + ivory handles. Some instruments by MEYROWITZ. Includes Joseph Warren’s surgical needles. Upper + lower compartments. Brass escutcheon - no mark

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"Persistence of roundness"

Spherical + cylindrical no. 500.  “This case was of portable type to be transported into the home” R near TRIAL PRISMS (24) handheld (metal frames)." Donated by Nicholas Samponaro, MD. May 1980.   

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Gold bridge and ear pieces.

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Includes:  Cloth covered wire battery connectors Green velvet fitted box Stamped 2209

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Stamped in gold.  Includes:  Box Small screwdriver (5 cm).  “Measures (illegible) specific gravity or gives refractive index.)
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