1767 FONTANA, Felice (1730 – 1805)

Ricerche fisiche sopra il veleno della vipera.

The starting point of modern investigations of serpent venoms and their antidotes. This work also includes Fontana’s description of the ciliary canal in the eye of an ox. This structure does not appear in the human ey…

GMN 2103 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2601

1844 –1850 SUŚRUTA, (Sushruta); HESSLER, Franz (1799 – 1890)

Suśrutas. Áyruvédas. Id est medicinae systema a venerabili d'hanvantare demonstratum a Suśruta discipulo compositum. Nunc primum ex Sanksríta in Latinum sermonem vertit, introductionem, annotationes et rerum indicem adjecit Dr. Franciscus Hessler. 3 vols.

First translation of the Suśruta Samhitā into Latin, and the first publication of this text in the West. Suśruta is said to have lived in the 6th or 5th centuries, BCE. The principal medical contribution of the ancien…

GMN 11 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/35

1930 LARSSON, Sven

Operative Behandlung von Netzhautabhebung mit Elektroendothermie und Trepanation; vorläufige Mitteilung.

Superficial diathermy treatment of retinal detachment. See also Arch Ophthal. (N.Y.), 1932, 7, 661-80.

GMN 5977 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7043

1947 VAN HOOF, L.

Sur la chimiothérapie de l’onchocercose. (Note préliminaire).

First effective chemotherapy (suramin) for onchocerciasis. With C. Heurard, E. Peel, and M. Wanson.

GMN 5351.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6887

1974 NIELSEN, Harald

Ancient ophthalmological agents: A pharmaco-historical study of the collyria and seals used during Roman antiquity, as well as of the most frequent components of the collyria.

GMN 8280 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10456