1860 DEMARQUAY, Jean Nicolas (1811 – 1875)
Ueber Complication von Sehnervenentzündung mit Gehimkrankheiten.
Graefe showed that most cases of blindness and impaired vision connected with cerebral disorders are a result of optic neuritis rather than of paralysis of the optic nerve.
GMN 5885 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7338
1860 GRAEFE, Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst Albrecht von (1828 – 1870)
Ueber Complication von Sehnervenentzündung mit Gehimkrankheiten
Graefe showed that most cases of blindness and impaired vision connected with cerebral disorders can be traced to optic neuritis rather than paralysis of the optic nerve.
GMN 4536 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8901
1863 –1865 JACKSON, John Hughlings (1835 – 1911)
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.
GMN 4537 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8899
1869 ROBERTSON, Douglas Moray Cooper Lamb Argyll (1837 – 1909)
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.
GMN 4540 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8902
1874 MITCHELL, Silas Weir (1829 – 1914)
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.
GMN 4551 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/411
1879 NOTHNAGEL, Carl Wilhelm Hermann (1841 – 1905)
Topische Diagnostik der Gehirnkrankheiten.
On p. 220 is the description of unilateral oculomotor paralysis combined with cerebellar ataxia, “Nothnagel’s syndrome”.
GMN 4560 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/424
1884 MÖBIUS, Paul Julius (1853 – 1907)
Ueber periodisch wiederkehrende Oculomotoriuslähmung.
“Möbius’s disease” – ophthalmoplegic migraine.
GMN 4567 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/435
1885 FUCHS, Ernst (1851 – 1930)
Die periphere Atrophie des Sehnerven.
Peripheral atrophy of the optic nerve was described by Fuchs and called “Fuchs’s optic atrophy”.
GMN 5926 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6848
1886 PANAS, Photinos (1832 – 1903)
D’un nouveau precédé opératoire applicable au ptosis congénital et au ptosis paralytique.
An operation for congenital and paralytic ptosis was introduced by Panas.
GMN 4572 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6856
1889 BENEDIKT, Moritz (1835 – 1920)
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.
GMN 4576 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/446
1898 PEL, Pieter Klazes (1852 – 1919)
Augenkrisen bei Tabes dorsalis.
“Pel’s crises” – the ocular crises in tabes.
GMN 4791 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1530
1903 CÉSTAN, Étienne Jacques Marie Raymond (1872 – 1934); CHENAIS, Louis Jean (1872 – 1950)
Du myosis dans certaines lésions bulbaires en foyer (hémiplégie du type Avellis associée au syndrome oculaire sympathique).
“Cestan–Chenais syndrome”.
GMN 4592 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/478
1903 BATTEN, Frederick Eustace (1865 – 1918)
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…
GMN 4712 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1175
1904 MAYOU, Marmaduke Stephen (1876 – 1934)
Cerebral degeneration, with symmetrical changes in the maculae, in three members of a family.
“Batten-Mayou disease”, juvenile amaurotic idiocy (see also No. 4712).
GMN 4713 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1178
1906 SPILLER, William Gibson (1863 – 1940); POSEY, William Campbell (1866 – 1934)
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.
GMN 13574 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15852
1909 INOUYE, Tatsuji (1880 – 1976)
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,…
GMN 7397 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9569
1909 CUSHING, Harvey Williams (1869 – 1939); BORDLEY, James Jr. (1874 – 1956)
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.
GMN 10720 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12914
1912 LLEWELLYN, T. Lister
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…
GMN 12589 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14829
1931 ADIE, William John (1886 – 1935)
Pseudo-Argyll Robertson pupils with absent tendon reflexes; a benign disorder simulating tabes dorsalis.
“Adie’s syndrome”; see also his later paper in Brain, 1932, 55, 98-113. It was earlier reported by J. Strasberger, by A. Saenger and by M. Nonne in Neurol. Zbl., 1902, 21, 738, 837, and 1000. See also No. 5950.
GMN 4611 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/584
1931 NYLÉN, Carl-Olof (1892 – 1978)
A clinical study on positional nystagmus in cases of brain tumour.
GMN 4611.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8931
1947 WALSH, Frank Burton (1895 – 1978)
Clinical neuro-ophthalmology.
Considered first textbook on neuro-ophthalmology.
GMN 13575 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15853
1966 HOYT, William Fletcher; BEESTON, Diane
The ocular fundus in neurologic disease: A diagnostic manual and stereo atlas.
Photographs by Diane Beeston.
GMN 7398 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9570
1993 LOEWENFELD, Irene E.
The pupil: Anatomy, physiology and clinical applications. 2 vols.
GMN 7399 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9571
