1622 BANISTER, Richard (1570 – 1626)
A treatise of one hundred and thirteene diseases of the eyes.
Although much of this is a translation of Guillemeau (No. 5818), the first 112 pages are Banister’s own work, “Banister’s Breviary”. He was an itinerant but honest oculist, the first to point out that hardness of the …
GMN 5820 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7036
1709 BRISSEAU, Michel (1676 – 1743)
Traité de la cataracte et du glaucoma.
Brisseau was the first to demonstrate the true nature and location of cataract. His book was reprinted in facsimile, 1921.
GMN 5825 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7061
1813 –1817 BEER, Georg Joseph (1763 – 1821)
Lehre von den Augenkrankheiten. 2 vols.
Beer is remembered for his textbook; the doctrines in it dominated practice for many years. He described the symptoms of glaucoma and noted the luminosity of the fundus in aniridia. He also presented for the first tim…
GMN 5842 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7153
1818 DEMOURS, Antoine Pierre (1762 – 1836)
Traité des maladies des yeux. 3 vols. and atlas.
Includes the first description of glaucoma in which heightened intraocular pressure is recognized, credit for which goes to the author’s father, Pierre Demours (1702-95), whose portrait appears in the atlas in recogni…
GMN 5842.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7157
1830 MACKENZIE, William (1791 – 1868)
A practical treatise on diseases of the eye.
In this book Mackenzie, one of the foremost ophthalmologists of his time, included a classic description of the symptomatology of glaucoma, and was probably the first to draw attention to the increase of intra-ocular …
GMN 5848 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7172
1854 –1855 GRAEFE, Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst Albrecht von (1828 – 1870)
Vorlaüfige Notiz über das Wesen des Glaucoms.
GMN 5872 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7264
1857 GRAEFE, Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst Albrecht von (1828 – 1870)
Ueber die Iridectomie bei Glaucom und über den glaucomatösen Process.
Iridectomy for the treatment of glaucoma was introduced by Graefe.
GMN 5881 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7283
1876 LAQUEUR, Ludwig (1839 – 1909)
Ueber eine neue therapeutische Verwendung des Physostigmin.
Introduction of physostigmine in the treatment of glaucoma.
GMN 5913 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6799
1905 HEINE, Leopold (1870 – 1940)
Die Cyklodialyse, eine neue Glaukomoperation.
Introduction of cyclodialysis in glaucoma.
GMN 5949 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6941
1907 HOLTH, Søren (1863 – 1937)
Iridencleisis antiglaucomatosa.
Introduction of iridencleisis for glaucoma.
GMN 5952 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6958
1907 LAGRANGE, Pierre Félix (1857 – 1928)
Nouveau traitement du glaucome chronique; iridectomie et sclérectomie combinée.
Sclerectomy for the treatment of glaucoma.
GMN 5953 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6962
1909 ELLIOT, Robert Henry (1864 – 1936)
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…
GMN 5955 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6967
1910 HERBERT, Herbert (1865 – 1942)
The small flap incision for glaucoma.
Herbert’s small flap sclerotomy.
GMN 5958 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6975
1937 VOGT, Alfred (1879 – 1943)
Ergebnisse der Diathermiestichelung des Corpus ciliare (Zyklodiathermiestichelung) gegen Glaukom.
Vogt’s operation of cyclodiathermy for glaucoma.
GMN 5988 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7076
2020 LEFFLER, Christopher T.
The history of glaucoma.
GMN 13658 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15939
