Doctor - Optometrist - Ophthalmologists exam room Large Clock

Colourized image from 1924 Original title: Garfield general hospital Photographer: National Photo Location: 11th st and Florida Ave, NW, Washington DC This is a room where an Ophthalmologist might work in. As you can see there is a reverse eye chart, its backwards because you are supposed to look at it using a mirror. To judge eyesight, you need to be 20ft away from the target. But most rooms are too small, so they used a mirror to make it longer, and they still use one today. The one with the animals are for children. Though some of those shapes are not at all recognisable. Because this room is a hospital there are a variety of other tools in it. That's why there is an excess of bed pans, and well I'm afraid to ask what is in that bowl. That large window will have you feeling quite exposed if you use either of these two items. The bell jar in the front left that looks like a stock market machine, is really a vacuum pump. It was probably used to aspirate fluids from the patient. This hospital (Garfield general hospital), was torn down in 1960, and replaced with a school. Though for some reason they kept the fencing that surrounded this building. It's still there today.