Ophthalmoscope
Oftalmoscopio
- Date
- 1851 · confidence high
- Place
- Königsberg (now Kaliningrad), Russia
- Credited to
- Hermann von Helmholtz
- Field
- Life & health
What it is
An optical instrument that allows the retina and the back of the eye to be viewed through the pupil, invented by Hermann von Helmholtz using a system of mirrors and lenses that avoids the glare of the incident light.
What it led to
- Birth of modern clinical ophthalmology
- Early diagnosis of retinal and systemic diseases
- Later development of indirect and digital ophthalmoscopes