Object Details
- Description
- A label in the lid of the wooden case reads in part “RUDDOCK PERITONEOSCOPE / (Dr. John C. Ruddock Los Angeles, Cal.) / with / McCarthy Foroblique Visual System / MADE IN U.S.A. BY / AMERICAN CYTOSCOPE MAKERS, INC. /. . . / NEW YORK, N.Y.” John Carroll Ruddock (1891-1964) was an American internist who, in 1934, devised an instrument for looking into the peritoneal cavity. The “Dr. E. L. Kellogg” inscription on the case is that of Edward Leland Kellogg (d. 1948), a New York gastroenterologist and author of The Duodenum, Its Structure and Function, Its Diseases and Their Medical and Surgical Treatment (1933).
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- maker
- American Cytoscope Makers, Inc. Wappler
- date made
- after 1934
- Measurements
- overall: 3 in x 17 in x 8 1/4 in; 7.62 cm x 43.18 cm x 20.955 cm
- Object Name
- cystoscopes
- Other Terms
- Diagnostic Medicine
