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412 entries match Ophthalmology & Vision [C11]
1900
#5945
Allgemeine Theorie der monochromatischen Aberrationen und ihre nächsten Ergebnisse für die Ophthalmologie.
The above work is the exposition of Gullstrand's general theory of monochromatic aberrations. This is an offprint from Nova Acta Reg. Soc. Sci. Ups., 1900-01, ser. 3, 20. In 1911 Gullstrand was awarded the Nobel Prize…
1900
#5946
Extractions of cataract in the capsule.
Smith, an officer in the Indian Medical Service, had remarkable success with his method of extraction of cataract within the capsule. He modified his operation in 1926 (Arch. Ophthal. N.Y., 55, 213-24). See also Smith…
1901
#5997
Die Augenheilkunde der Alten.
A history of ancient ophthalmology in which the writer has attempted to reconstruct the anatomical concepts of the ancient Greeks. Translated into English by Richey L. Waugh as Ophthalmology of the ancients, Oostende:…
1901
#5998
Histoire des lunettes.
1901
#13429
Katalog der Bücher-Sammlung von J. Hirschberg. (Vom Verfasser Überreicht.)
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1902
#1525
Some observations on the visual purple of the retina.
Edridge-Green first put forward his theories on the function of the retinal rods and of the visual purple about 1889. See also his Physiology of vision, 1920.
1902
#8824
Die Augenheilkunde des Ibn Sina aus dem Arabischen Übersetzt und Erläutert.
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Translation of Book III, Fan III of Avicenna's Canon pertaining to the eye and its diseases. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1903
#4592
Du myosis dans certaines lésions bulbaires en foyer (hémiplégie du type Avellis associée au syndrome oculaire sympathique).
“Cestan–Chenais syndrome”.
1903
#4712
Cerebral degeneration with symmetrical changes in the maculae in two members of a family.
Batten disease, a fatal disease of the nervous system that typically begins in childhood. Onset of symptoms is usually between 5 and 10 years of age. Often, it is autosomal recessive. It is the common name for a group…
1903
#1525.1
The time relations of the photo-electric changes in the eyeball of the frog.
First correct electroretinograms.
1903
#1525.2
Demonstration eines Instrumentes zur Erzeugung von Strahlengebilden um leuchtende Punkte.
Gullstrand invented the slit-lamp, making possible the microscopic study of the living eye.
1903
#2557
Zur Lehre von der Unterscheidung verschiedener Eiweissarten mit Hilfe spezifischer Sera.
Demonstration of organ-specific antigens, in this case in the proteins of the lens of the eye.
1903
#5999
Histoire de l’ophtalmologie. In. P.F. Lagrange and E. Valude: Encyclopédie française d’ophtalmologie, Paris, 1, 1-86.
1903
#6000
Die Brille und ihre Geschichte.
1904
#4713
Cerebral degeneration, with symmetrical changes in the maculae, in three members of a family.
“Batten-Mayou disease”, juvenile amaurotic idiocy (see also No. 4712).
1904 –1908
#5947
The pathology of the eye. 4 vols.
1904
#5948
Nuovo metodo conservatore di cura radicale delle suppurazioni croniche del sacco lacrimale (dacriocistorinostomia).
Toti’s account of dacryocystorhinostomy, a procedure he himself introduced.
1905
#5949
Die Cyklodialyse, eine neue Glaukomoperation.
Introduction of cyclodialysis in glaucoma.
1905
#6001
Geschichte der Augenheilkunde. Handbuch der Geschichte de Medizin 3, 489-572
1905
#12519
Die arabischen Lehrbücher der Augenheilkunde. Ein Capitel zur arabischen Litteraturegeschichte. Unter Mitwirkung von J. Lippert und E. Mittwoch. Bearbeitet von J. Hirschberg.
Digital facsimile of the 1905 edition from the Internet Archive at this link. Translated into English as The Arabian Ophthalmologists, compiled from original texts by J. Hirschberg, J. Lippert and E. Mittwoch and tran…
1906
#5950
Notes on a peculiar pupil phenomenon in cases of partial iridoplegia.
Markus was among the first to describe the condition known as “Adie’s syndrome” (No. 4611).
1906
#5950.1
Eine erfolgreiche totale Keratoplastik.
First successful corneal transplantation (keratoplasty).
1906
#13574
The eye and nervous system: Their diagnostic relations by various authors. Edited by Wm. Campbell Posey and William G. Spiller.
The first comprehensive treatise in English on neuro-ophthalmology. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1907
#5951
Über Zelleinschlüsse parasitärer Natur beim Trachom.
Halberstaedter and Prowazek first described the cytoplasmic inclusion bodies of trachoma, Chlamydia trachomatis.
1907
#5952
Iridencleisis antiglaucomatosa.
Introduction of iridencleisis for glaucoma.
1907
#5953
Nouveau traitement du glaucome chronique; iridectomie et sclérectomie combinée.
Sclerectomy for the treatment of glaucoma.
1907
#7395
Die Bakteriologie in der Augenheilkunde.
Translated into English by Angus McNab as The bacteriology of the eye (London: Ballière, Tyndall & Cox, 1908, and New York: William Wood & Co, 1908).
1908
#5954
Forms of retinal disease with massive exudation.
“Coats’s disease” (retinitis circinata).
1908
#6002
The development of ophthalmology in America, 1800 to 1870.
Of limited value, but the only available history of early American ophthalmology.
1909
#5955
A preliminary note on a new operative procedure for the establishment of a filtering cicatrix in the treatment of glaucoma.
Elliot, working in 1909 at the Government Ophthalmic Hospital in Madras, began to use a trephine to make a very anterior sclerectomy under a conjunctival flap, coupled with a peripheral iridectomy. See also his Sclero…
1909
#5956
Über Epithelzellveränderungen beim Trachom und andern Conjunctivalerkrankungen.
Demonstration of the inclusion bodies in ophthalmia neonatorum.
1909
#7397
Die Sehstörungen bei Schussverletzungen der kortikalen Sehsphäre, nach Beobachtungen an Verwundeten der letzten japanischen Kriege.
During and after Japan’s war with Russia (1904-1905 ) Inouye tested the visual fields in wounded soldiers for insurance purposes, and set out his observations in this work. English translation: Glickstein, M. & Fahle,…
1909
#10720
Observations on choked disc, with especial reference to decompressive cranial operations.
The diagnostic value for neurosurgery of changes in the optic nerve caused by increased intracranial pressure.
1910
#5957
Studien zur sympathischen Ophthalmie. 1. Wirkung von Antigenen vom Augeninnem aus.
Elschnig suggested the anaphylactic theory of the pathogenesis of sympathetic ophthalmia.
1910
#5958
The small flap incision for glaucoma.
Herbert’s small flap sclerotomy.
1911
#1526
Einführung in die Methoden der Dioptrik des Auges des Menschen.
Discovery of the intracapsular mechanism of accommodation.
1911
#5959
Vacuum fixation of the lens and flap suture in the extraction of a cataract in its capsule.
Hulen devised a vacuum method of cataract extraction.
1912
#5960
Klinische, experimentelle und mikroskopische Studien über Trachom, Einschlussblenorrhöe und Frühjahrskatarrh.
Filtration of the virus of inclusion conjunctivitis.
1912
#5962
Angiopathia retinae traumatica. Lymphorrhagien des Augengrundes.
“Purtscher’s disease”, traumatic angiopathy of the retina, first described.
1912
#5963
Intrakapsuläre Staroperationen.
Stanculeanu’s technique for cataract extraction.
1912
#12589
The causes and prevention of miners' nystagmus.
Abstract "Miners' nystagmus is an occupational neurosis which is confined to workers in coal mines. The chief symptom and physical sign is a rotatory oscillation of the eyeballs, which prevents the miner from accurate…
1913
#11249
Important discovery in tropical medicine: Metamorphosis of Filaria Loa.
Leiper discovered diurnal periodicity in Filaria Loa, as the worm embryos are found in the blood only during day, as an adaptation to the day-biting habits of their insect vector, a biting fly of the genus Chrysopa. T…
1915
#5964
Report of one hundred successive extractions of cataract in the capsule after subluxation with the capsule forceps.
Knapp’s method of extraction of cataract with forceps. See also his later paper in the same journal, 1921, 50, 426-30.
1916
#6371
Ueber eine bisher unerkannte Spirochäteninfektion (Spirochaetosis arthritica).
“Reiter’s syndrome”, a disease of males characterized by initial diarrhea, urethritis, conjunctivitis, and arthritis. Reiter was a German Nazi physician and war criminal who conducted medical experiments at Buchenwald…
1917
#5965
Un procédé d’extrême douceur pour l’extraction “in toto” de la cataracte.
Attempts to extract cataract by suction and aspiration date from ancient times. Barraquer employed a special machine of his own invention. His co-author Anduyned, seems to be identified by last name only.
1917
#5966
Tests for colour-blindness.
Ishihara’s color tests. 15th ed., 1960.
1917
#7116
The fundus oculi of birds especially as viewed by the ophthalmoscope. A study in comparative anatomy and physiology. Illustrated by 143 drawings... also by sixty-one colored paintings prepared for this work by Arthur W. Head.
Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library, Internet Archive, at this link.
1917
#12959
The Indian operation of couching for cataract. Incorporating The Hunterian Lectures....
Prefaced by an extensive historical introduction; the remainder of the text being of historical significance in the 21st century. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1918 –1973
#82
Sebrané spisy. Opera omnia. Tom. 1-12.
Purkynĕ was Professor of Physiology at Breslau and Prague. Eminent as physiologist and microscopist, he was first to use the microtome. See Kruta, V. J.E. Purkynĕ, Physiologist. A short account of his contributions…wi…
1921
#1527
Atlas der Spaltlampenmikroskopie des lebenden Auges.
An important work on the biomicroscopy of the eye. Second ed. greatly revised and enlarged, vol. 1-2, Springer, 1930-31; vol. 3, Stuttgart, F. Enke, 1942; vol. 3 (English translation) Zurich, 1947. Second ed. reprinte…