Uploaded October 2024 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Yesterday I showed you a medical instrument used to probe a particularly sensitive part of the human body. Hopefully you guessed correctly that that body part is the eye. This is a Schiøtz Tonometer, introduced by Norwegian Ophthalmologist Hjalmar Schiøtz in 1905 and designed to measure intraocular pressure or IOP - a key measurement in the diagnosis of glaucoma.
SOURCES
aao.org/biographies-detail/schiotz-hjalmar
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4322748
eyewiki.org/IOP_and_Tonometry#Schiotz_Tonometer
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2206330
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK582132
ophthalmologyweb.com/Tech-Spotlights/26468-180-Years-of-Evolution-of-the-Tonometer
Yesterday I showed you a medical instrument used to probe a particularly sensitive part of the human body. Hopefully you guessed correctly that that body part is the eye. This is a Schiøtz Tonometer, introduced by Norwegian Ophthalmologist Hjalmar Schiøtz in 1905 and designed to measure intraocular pressure or IOP - a key measurement in the diagnosis of glaucoma.
SOURCES
aao.org/biographies-detail/schiotz-hjalmar
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4322748
eyewiki.org/IOP_and_Tonometry#Schiotz_Tonometer
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2206330
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK582132
ophthalmologyweb.com/Tech-Spotlights/26468-180-Years-of-Evolution-of-the-Tonometer
