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412 entries match Ophthalmology & Vision [C11]
1877
#5915
Beziehungen der Allgemein-Leiden und Organ-Erkrankungen zu Veränderungen und Krankheiten des Sehorgans. In: GRAEFE and SAEMISCH, Handbuch der gesammten Augenheilkunde, 7, Theil 5, 59-234
Förster was among the first to study the relationship between eye disease and general and organic disease of the body.
1877 –1882
#9640
Bibliographie analytique des principaux phénomènes subjectifs de la vision, depuis les temps anciens jusqu'a la fin du XVIIIe siècle, suivie d'une bibliographie simple pour la partie écoulée du siècle actuel.
Première section: Persistance des impressions sur la rétine. Deuxième section: couleurs accidentelles ordinaires du succession. Troisième section: images qui succèdent à la contemplation d'objets brillants. Quatrième …
1878
#1519
Ueber den Sehpurpur.
Kühne was Professor of Physiology at Amsterdam and Heidelberg. Among his best work is his investigation of visual purple (rhodopsin) which he was first to extract from the retina. Several other papers by him on the sa…
1878
#5916.1
Ueber Keratoplastik.
Sellerbeck was first to use human donor corneas for transplants. He was not very successful, probably because the antiseptics employed were too strong.
1878
#7745
The life and education of Laura Dewey Bridgman, the deaf, dumb, and blind girl.
Biography of Laura Bridgman (1829-89, the first deaf-blind person ever to read, write, and converse in the finger alphabet. The book includes a signed holograph facsimile of Bridgman's widely circulated religious poem…
1879
#4560
Topische Diagnostik der Gehirnkrankheiten.
On p. 220 is the description of unilateral oculomotor paralysis combined with cerebellar ataxia, “Nothnagel’s syndrome”.
1879
#5917
On astigmatism as a cause for persistent headache and other nervous symptoms.
Thomson was a pioneer in the study of refraction. He was much interested in color-blindness and modified Holmgren’s wool-skein test. Himself affected with hypermetropia, he made important investigations on this condit…
1880 –1881
#5918
Symmetrical changes in the region of the yellow spot in each eye of an infant.
Tay was the first to describe amaurotic familial idiocy, his paper dealing mainly with the ocular manifestations. The condition later became known as “Tay-Sachs’s disease” (see also No. 4705).
1880 –1889
#5919
Traité complet de l’ophtalmologie. 4 vols.
1881
#5920
Un ophtalmomètre pratique.
Javal and Schiötz here describe an ophthalmometer invented by them.
1881
#5924
Die Verhütung der Augenentzüngung der Neugeborenen.
Credé introduced the practice of instillation of silver nitrate into the eyes of all newborn children as a preventive measure against ophthalmia neonatorum. Separate expanded edition with the same title, Berlin: A. Hi…
1882
#5921
Ein experimenteller Beitrag zur Pathogenese der sympathischen Augen-Entzündung.
Deutschmann was the chief protagonist of the infective theory of sympathetic ophthalmia.
1882
#5922
Neue Instrumente.
Introduction of the keratoscope.
1883
#1622
Die Hygiene des Auges in den Schulen.
Cohn did much to promote school hygiene. He advocated regular examination of the eyes of school children, an idea which was put into practice in 1885. An English translation of the book appeared in 1886.
1883
#5923
Bericht über die Thätigkeit der deutschen Cholerakommission in Aegypten und Ostindien.
Koch–Weeks bacillus, Hemophilus conjunctivitidis, or Hemophilus aegyptius. Koch discovered the bacilli of two varieties of Egyptian conjunctivitis. See also No. 5930.
1884
#4567
Ueber periodisch wiederkehrende Oculomotoriuslähmung.
“Möbius’s disease” – ophthalmoplegic migraine.
1884
#5678
Vorläufige Mitteilung über locale Anästheserung am Auge.
Introduction of cocaine as a local anesthetic; this was the first local anesthetic employed (16 September 1884). Freud (No. 1880.1) is accredited by some with this innovation, but in this connection see the letter by …
1884
#8655
On cocaine and its use in ophthalmic and general surgery.
Knapp translated Koller's paper (No. 5678) into English and with the English translation published a large amount of supplementary material by American surgeons who had recently experimented with cocaine as a local an…
1885
#1520
The anatomy of the muscles, ligaments and fasciae of the orbit, including an account of the capsule of Tenon, the check ligaments of the recti, and the suspensory ligaments of the eye.
“Lockwood’s suspensory ligament” of the globe of the eye.
1885
#5926
Die periphere Atrophie des Sehnerven.
Peripheral atrophy of the optic nerve was described by Fuchs and called “Fuchs’s optic atrophy”.
1885
#5927
Der Electromagnet in der Augenheilkunde.
The introduction of the electromagnet into ophthalmology. A pupil of Helmholtz, Hirschberg was one of the most voluminous writers in the field of ophthalmology. Besides his dictionary (see No. 5932) he wrote a classic…
1885
#5928
On the surgical, physiological, and aesthetic advantages of the artificial vitreous body.
“Mules’s operation”, evisceration of the eyeball with insertion of artificial vitreous.
1886
#3389.1
Ueber Nystagmus und associierte Augenbewegungsversuche bei Hystero-Epileptischen.
Rotational nystagmus described. First published in Magyar in Orvosi Hetilap, 1886, 30, 857, 889.
1886
#4572
D’un nouveau precédé opératoire applicable au ptosis congénital et au ptosis paralytique.
An operation for congenital and paralytic ptosis was introduced by Panas.
1886
#5930
The bacillus of acute conjunctival catarrh or “pink eye”.
In 1883 Koch discovered the bacilli of two different forms of infectious conjunctivitis (Egyptian ophthalmia); in 1886. Weeks discovered the same organism to be the cause of “pink-eye”. The organism has become known a…
1887 –1888
#5931
Die ärztliche Ueberwachung der Schulen zur Verhütung der Verbreitung der Kurzsichtigkeit.
Cohn was a pioneer in his advocacy of the routine examination of the eyes of schoolchildren.
1887
#5932
Wörterbuch der Augenheilkunde.
1888
#1521
Kort öfversigt af läran om lokalisationen i hjernbarken.
Discovery of the cortical visual center.
1888
#5933
Eine neue Methode der Hornhauttransplantation.
Modern keratoplasty is based on the technique introduced by von Hippel.
1889
#4576
Tremblement avec paralysie croisée du moteur oculaire commun.
“Benedikt’s syndrome”–paralysis of the oculomotor nerve on one side with intensive trembling of the other side. English translation in Wolf, The classical brain stem syndromes, Springfield, Charles CThomas, 1971.
1889
#5934
Keratitis punctata superficialis.
Epidemic keratoconjunctivitis first described.
1889
#5935
Lehrbuch der Augenheilkunde.
Fuchs’s textbook was an outstanding contribution to the literature, and was translated into many languages. The last English edition appeared in 1933.
1889
#5936
Conjonctivite infectieuse transmise par les animaux.
Parinaud described an infectious tuberculous conjunctivitis transmissible from animals to man. In 1924 Gifford suggested the name “Parinaud’s oculo-glandular syndrome” as a more suitable description. See also Rec. Oph…
1891
#5937
Colour-blindness and colour-perception.
Includes (p. 262 et seq.) description of Edridge-Green’s lantern test for color-blindness. This was officially adopted in Great Britain in 1915 in place of the Holmgren test.
1892
#1473
Persistence of vision.
Ferry modified Weber’s law on the relationship between stimulus and sensation. Following the work of Porter, Proc. roy. Soc. (Lond.), 1898, 63, 347; 1902, 70, 313, the term “Ferry–Porter Law” came into being.
1892
#3506
Ueber eine eigenartige symmetrische Erkrankung der Thränen- und Mundspeicheldrüsen.
First description of the syndrome of symmetrical inflammation of the lacrymal and salivary glands (“Mikulicz’s disease”). English translation in Medical Classics, 1937, 2, 165-86.
1892
#12786
The collected papers of Sir W. Bowman. Edited by J. Burdon-Sanderson and J. W. Hulke. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1893
#1522
Eine neue Theorie der Licht-Empfindung.
Ladd-Franklin theory of vision.
1894
#1523
Die Retina der Wirbelthiere…In Verbindung mit dem Verfasser zusammengestellt, übersetzt und mit Einleitung versehen von Dr. Richard Greef.
Classic account of the vertebrate retina. First published in the Belgian review La Cellule, and later translated into German with extensive additions by Ramón y Cajal. Translated into English by Sylvia A. Thorpe and M…
1894
#5938
Ueber die eitrige metastatische Ophthalmie, besonders ihre Aetiologie und prognostische Bedeutung.
Classic account of metastatic ophthalmia.
1894
#5939
Conjonctivite lacrymale à pneumocoques des nouveau-nés.
1895
#5347.1
Case of Filaria loa in which the parasite was removed from under the conjunctiva.
First detailed description of Loa loa. See also Trans. ophthal. Soc. U.K., 1897, 17, 227-32. Robertson first briefly mentioned this procedure and the Loa Loa worm in a brief article written for him by the editor of La…
1895
#5940
Vorstellung eines Patientin mit einem sehr ungewöhnlichen Netzhautbeziehungsweise Aderhautleiden.
First description of angiomatosis of the retina – “Hippel’s disease”.
1896
#1524
Ueber die Funktion der Netzhautstäbchen.
On the function of the retinal rods.
1896
#5942
Note sur un diplobacille pathogène pour la conjunctiva humaine.
Morax and Axenfeld (No. 5941) independently isolated a diplobacillus which causes a chronic conjunctivitis – the Morax – Axenfeld haemophilus.
1897
#5941
Beiträge zur Aetiologie der Bindehautenzündungen. Ueber chronische Diplobacillenconjunctivitis.
Description of the diplobacillary form of chronic conjunctivitis.
1898
#4791
Augenkrisen bei Tabes dorsalis.
“Pel’s crises” – the ocular crises in tabes.
1898
#5943
Die Erkrankungen des Auges im Zusammenhang mit anderen Krankheiten.
Like Förster (No. 5915), Schmidt-Rimpler was interested in the relationship between eye diseases and general organic diseases; like Cohn (No. 5931), he was an advocate of the routine examination of the eyes of schoolc…
1899 –1918
#5944
Handbuch der gesamten Augenheilkunde. 2te. Aufl. 15 vols. [in 41].
The first edition of this great collective work, edited by Graefe and Saemisch, appeared between 1874 and 1880.
1899 –1918
#5996
Geschichte der Augenheilkunde. 10 pts.
This monumental work remains the authoritative encyclopaedic history of ophthalmology, up to the first decade of the 20th century. Its thoroughness and critical judgment mark it as one of the greatest of all histories…