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412 entries match Ophthalmology & Vision [C11]
1862
#5889
Astigmatisme en cilindrische glazen.
Includes statement of “Donders’s law” – the rotation of the eye around the line of sight is not voluntary. French and German translations, 1862.
1862
#5890
Probebuchstaben zur Bestimmung der Sehschärfe.
Snellen’s test-types (“Optotypi”) which soon gained acceptance in all civilized countries. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1863
#5891
Ein neues und gefahrloses Operations-Verhfahren zur Heilung des grauen Staares.
Jacobson used a peripheral incision in his operation for cataract.
1863
#5892
Atlas der Ophthalmoscopie. Darstellung des Augengrundes im gesunden und krankhaften Zustande enthalten.
First atlas of the fundus. The author was an assistant to Helmholtz at the time of the invention of the ophthalmoscope. The work is illustrated with reproductions of his own paintings. Text in French and German. Engli…
1863 –1865
#4537
Observations on defects of sight in brain disease.
In this work Jackson showed the importance of the ophthalmoscope in the investigation of diseases of the nervous system. Reprinted in Med. Classics, 1939, 3, 918-26.
1864
#5893
On the anomalies of accommodation and refraction of the eye… Translated from the author’s manuscript by W.D. Moore.
Donders’s greatest work, the basis for all succeeding studies of the subject, and a classic of physiological optics. It contains Donders’s explanation of astigmatism, his definition of aphakia and hypermetropia, his s…
1865
#1511.1
Method att objectivera effecten av ljusintryck pa retina.
Discovery of the electroretinogram, the beginning of the use of electrophysiological methods for studying visual systems.
1865 –1872
#5894
A method of operating for divergent squint.
Agnew devised an operation for the treatment of divergent squint.
1865 –1872
#5895
Suture of the flap, after extraction of cataract.
A method of suturing the flap after cataract extraction was introduced by Williams.
1865
#5897
Ueber mordificirte Linearextraction.
Graefe’s improvement of the operation for cataract by the modified linear extraction reduced the incidence of eye loss from 10 to 2.3 per cent.
1866
#1512
Zur Anatomie und Physiologie der Retina.
One of the greatest of all histologists, Max Schultze is remembered by ophthalmologists for his monograph on the nerve-endings in the retina.
1866
#5898
Zur Lehre der sympathischen Ophthalmie.
A classic contribution to the literature of sympathetic ophthalmia.
1866
#5896
Ueber die Extraktion des grauen Staares bei uneröffneter Kapsel durch den Scleralschnitt. IN Klinische Beobachtungen aus der Augenheilanstalt zu Wiesbaden, hrsg. von E.H. Pagenstecher u. T. Saemisch, Heft 3.
Extraction of the lens in the closed capsule through a scleral incision, for the treatment of cataract.
1867
#1513
Handbuch der physiologischen Optik. 1 vol. and atlas.
Includes Helmholtz’s revival of the Young theory of color vision. English translation by J.P.C. Southall of 3rd German edition, 3 vols., Menasha, Wis., 1924-25.
1867
#5899
Symptomenlehre der Augenmuskellähmungen.
The first thorough account of paralysis of the eye muscles, and the basis for their surgical treatment. The first section describes conditions resulting from injuries to the eye muscles. The second part outlines physi…
1867
#5901
Sur un nouvel instrument pour la détermination de l’astigmatisme.
Javal invented the astigmometer, and described it in the above paper.
1868
#1513.1
Die Lehre vom binokularen Sehen.
Hering’s law: that the corresponding muscles of the two eyes are always equally innervated. The book includes classic experiments and observations on eye movement control. English translation by B. Bridgeman and L. St…
1868
#4056.1
Ueber Cataracten in Verbindung mit einer eigenthümlichen Haut-de-generation.
Poikiloderma congenitale (Rothmund).
1868
#5900
Ueber Ceratoconus.
Classic description of conical cornea (keratoconus).
1868
#5902
Die intraocularen Geschwülste nach eigenen klinischen Beobachtungen und anatomischen Untersuchungen.
English translation, New York, 1869.
1869
#1328
Ueber eine Form von Ptosis.
“Horner’s syndrome”, due to lesion of the cervical sympathetic. The same syndrome was evoked in animals by Pourfour du Petit in 1727 (see No. 1313). It is a proof that the sympathetic governs the pupillary, vasomotor,…
1869
#3938
Retinitis in glycosuria.
First investigation of retinitis accompanying glycosuria.
1869
#5904
Opthalmoskopischer Hand-Atlas.
A fine atlas which was for many years unsurpassed. The illustrations were reproduced from Jaeger’s own paintings, each of which required from 20 to 50 sittings of from two to three hours each. English translation, Lon…
1869
#4540
On an interesting series of eye symptoms in a case of spinal disease, with remarks on the action of belladonna on the iris.
“Argyll Robertson pupil” first described. See also his later paper in the same journal, 1869, 15, 487-93. Reprinted in Med. Classics, 1937, 1, 851-76.
1870 –1871
#1514
Om retinaströmmen.
First demonstration of retinal action currents.
1870
#5905
Das Ulcus corneae serpens und seine Therapie.
First description of serpiginous ulcer of the cornea and its treatment. Called also “Saemisch’s ulcer”.
1871
#5906
Ueber hereditäre und congenital-angelegte Sehnervenleiden.
First description of hereditary optic atrophy, “Leber’s optic atrophy”.
1871
#10123
Traité des opérations qui se pratiquent sur l'oeil.
Published in fascicules beginning in 1870. Includes 22 original mounted albumen photographs by Montméja illustrating chapters on cataract, iridectomy, strabismus, eyelids, and lacrymal passages. There are also 190 woo…
1871
#13426
A. von Grafe's hinterlassene medizinische u. ophthalmologische Bibliothek, sowie ein Anhang von diversen medizinischen Werken und Suiten von medizinischen Journalen zu Antiquarpreisen durch die Hirschwald'sche Buchhandlung in Berlin.
1872 –1875
#1515
Zur Lehre vom Lichtsinne. 6 parts.
Hering’s theory of color sense. First edition in book form (Vienna, 1878). Hering expanded this work in Grundzüge der Lehre vom Lichtsinn (1905-11; 1920) English translation of that expanded work by Leo M. Hurvich and…
1873
#1515.1
Studien über den Flüssigkeitswechsel im Auge.
Leber discovered how the ciliary body excretes intraocular fluid.
1873
#5907
Zur sogenannten Commotio retinae.
Berlin, professor of ophthalmology at Rostock, described the traumatic edema of the retina which is sometimes referred to as “Berlin’s edema”.
1873 –1874
#5908
Kératoscopie.
Introduction of the shadow test (retinoscopy), sometimes called “Cuignet’s method”.
1873
#5909
Light for the blind: A history of the origin and success of Moon’s system of reading (embossed in various languages) for the blind.
Moon became totally blind at the age of 22. He taught other blind people and devised a simplified form of roman letters, embossed on paper, for use by blind readers. This was in 1845, and two years later he published …
1873 –1875
#5910
Atlas der pathologischen Anatomie des Augapfels. Atlas of the pathological anatomy of the eyeball
Text in German and English; Sir W. R. Gowers was responsible for the English translation. Digital facsimile from the Bayerische StaatsBibliothek at this link.
1874
#4551
Headaches, from heat-stroke, from fevers, after meningitis, from overuse of brain, from eyestrain.
Mitchell drew attention to the importance of eyestrain as a cause of headache.
1874 –1879
#1516
Ueber die Kreuzung der Fasern im Chiasma nervorum opticorum.
Important studies on the partial decussation of optic paths.
1874
#5911
Om den medfödda, färgblindhetens diagnostic och teori.
Holmgren introduced the wool-skein test for the diagnosis of color-blindness.
1874 –1878
#11619
Atlas der pathologischen Topographie des Auges. 3 vols.
1875
#3941
Ueber die Erkrankungen des Auges bei Diabetes mellitus.
A record of Leber’s important studies on the disorders of the eye in diabetes.
1875
#5344.10
On the presence of a Filaria in “craw-craw”.
In 1874, while examining skin snips from craw-craw patients in Ghana, during his service on the H. M. S. Decoy, the Irish surgeon O’Neill discovered the subcutaneous microfilaria. This was the earliest known visual id…
1875
#5912
Ueber die Verletzungen des Auges mit besonderer Rücksicht auf deren gerichtsärztliche Würdigung.
English translation by Charles S. Turnbull as Injuries of the eye and their medico-legal aspect. (Philadelpha. 1878). Digital facsimile of the 1875 edition from the Internet Archive at this link; of the 1878 edition f…
1876
#1518
Ueber den feineren Bau der Chorioidea des Menschen nebst Beiträgen zur pathologischen und vergleichenden Anatomie der Aderhaut.
“Sattler’s layer” of the choroid.
1876
#4216
The state of the arteries in Bright’s disease.
Gowers’s important account of the changes in the retinal vessels in Bright’s disease is reproduced in Willius & Keys, Cardiac classics, 1941, pp. 605-11.
1876
#5913
Ueber eine neue therapeutische Verwendung des Physostigmin.
Introduction of physostigmine in the treatment of glaucoma.
1876
#5914
Der Frühjahrskatarrh. In: GRAEFE and SAEMISCH, Handbuch der gesammten Augenheilkunde
First description of vernal conjunctivitis.
1876 –1877
#5916
Om färgblindheten i dess förhallande till jernvägstrafiken och sjöväsendet.
A serious railway accident in Sweden in 1875 was believed by Holmgren to be due to color-blindness, and resulted in the above important paper dealing with the condition and its relation to railway and maritime traffic…
1876
#5993
Geschichte des grauen Staares.
An early history of cataract.
1877
#1517
Zur Physiologie des Sehens und der Farbenempfindung.
Boll noted that visual purple is bleached on exposure to light.
1877
#5994
Geschichte der Ophthalmologie. In: GRAEFE and SAEMISCH, Handbuch der gesammten Augenheilkunde 7, Theil 5, 235-554
The first systematic history of the subject.