logologo-optometry

Schiotz tonometer

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Catalogue Number: 2103
Schiotz tonometer
Category: Equipment
Sub-Category: Tonometer
Designer/inventor: SCHIOTZ, Hjalmar August
Year Of Publication/Manufacture: c1955
Time Period: 1940 to 1999
Description Of Item: Schiotz indentation tonometer for measurement of intra-ocular pressure in a black leatherette, blue-velvet lined case, with a folded white paper sheet certifying the calibration dated 1955 in the lining of the lid.
Historical Significance: Compare this 1955 tonometer with the improved ones dating from 1960 to 1976 (Car Nos. 2890, 2888, 2104, 2004) and an earlier one similar to this one at Cat No. 2891. Hjalmar August Schi?tz (1850-1927) was born in Stavanger, Norway. He graduated in Medicine in 1877 in Khristiania. He studied ophthalmology in Vienna, where he became a friend of Ernst Fuchs (1851-1930), and in Paris, he was employed as "directeur adjoint" in the ophthalmologic laboratory at the Sorbonne under Louis ?mile Javal. They developed the ophthalmometer named for them in 1880. In 1881 he became an assistant at the surgical department of the Rikshospitalet in Kristiania and he established a private practice as an eye specialist. He distinguished himself in his work to introduce asepsis in Norway. He was appointed professor of medicine with the obligation to teach eye medicine in 1901. Schi?tz demonstrated his tonometer in The Norwegian Medical Society (Det norske medicinske Selskab) in 1905 and for the next half century the Schi?tz tonometer was generally accepted as a reliable means of measuring intraocular pressure. H. A. Schi?tz: Et nyt tonometer, tonometri. Norsk Magazin for L?gevidenskaben, Kristiania, 1905, 5th series, volume 3: 597-622. H. A. Schi?tz: Archiv fur Augenheilkunde, Wiesbaden,1905: 401-424.
How Acquired: Donated by Glenda Schubert, member of the College
Date Acquired: August 200
Condition: Case slighly worn, one hinge broken and missing one weight
Location: Archive room. East wall Unit 3 Cupboard

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