Educational tools

Anatomical and diagnostic tools are the foundation for any practitioner. We have a small but growing selection of training devices. Many of the model eyes from the 18th and 19th century were made of glass, hence they broke easily, and are very difficult to find.

This plaster and hand-blown glass model eye, made to come apart to show the entire structure of the eye, was made in Germany by Brock Steger around 1880-1890.

To learn to use the ophthalmoscope, doctors would practice on Dr. Marice Perrin’s Artificial or Phantom Eye, c. 1886. This was a brass eyeball with 12 hand-painted interchangeable discs designed to simulate various pathological conditions. This particular one, unfortunately, has 3 missing discs.
Make your own optical devices educational kit, dated 1924. Virtually untouched!
Diadactic (teaching) poster of the eye, England, circa 1910
1940s Denoyer-Geppert model eye made out of plaster. This one came from the University of San Francisco
Here is another training eye, Dunn’s, c. 1910, this one with 18 discs.
Hand painted, plaster-of-Paris model eye
Two more optical instrument making kits, the one on the left from the U.K., the one on the right from the U.S., both dated 1935

Anatomical eye made in West Germany, circa 1950

Poster of optical instruments and how they work, USA, 1951
Glass and acetate actual size model eye, from the collection of internationally known ophthalmologist, c. 1930s
Light and optical kit, US, 1961
Anatomical model made of fiberglass, that also lights up!
Plastic cut away model eye given away by a pharmaceutical company.
Giant “eye” microscope that projects the image on your television.