1888 HENSCHEN, Salomon Eberhard (1847 – 1930)
Kort öfversigt af läran om lokalisationen i hjernbarken.
Discovery of the cortical visual center.
GMN 1521 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2629
1891 EDRIDGE-GREEN, Frederick William (1863 – 1953)
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.
GMN 5937 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6893
1892 FERRY, Ervin Sidney (1868 – 1956)
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.
GMN 1473 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2440
1893 LADD-FRANKLIN, Christine (1847 – 1930)
Eine neue Theorie der Licht-Empfindung.
Ladd-Franklin theory of vision.
GMN 1522 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2847
1894 CAJAL, Santiago Ramón y (1852 – 1934)
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…
GMN 1523 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3620
1896 KRIES, Johannes Adolf von (1853 – 1928)
Ueber die Funktion der Netzhautstäbchen.
On the function of the retinal rods.
GMN 1524 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2848
1902 EDRIDGE-GREEN, Frederick William (1863 – 1953)
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.
GMN 1525 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2849
1903 GOTCH, Francis (1853 – 1913)
The time relations of the photo-electric changes in the eyeball of the frog.
First correct electroretinograms.
GMN 1525.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2850
1903 GULLSTRAND, Allvar (1862 – 1930)
Demonstration eines Instrumentes zur Erzeugung von Strahlengebilden um leuchtende Punkte.
Gullstrand invented the slit-lamp, making possible the microscopic study of the living eye.
GMN 1525.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2851
1911 GULLSTRAND, Allvar (1862 – 1930)
Einführung in die Methoden der Dioptrik des Auges des Menschen.
Discovery of the intracapsular mechanism of accommodation.
GMN 1526 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2852
1917 ISHIHARA, Shinobu (1879 – 1963)
Tests for colour-blindness.
Ishihara’s color tests. 15th ed., 1960.
GMN 5966 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6997
1918 –1973 PURKYNĔ, Jan Evangelista [PURKINJE] (1787 – 1869)
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…
GMN 82 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1378
1927 ADRIAN, Edgar Douglas (1889 – 1977); MATTHEWS, Rachel
The action of light on the eye.
On the electrical discharges from the vertebrate optic nerve.
GMN 1528 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2854
1927 DUKE-ELDER, Sir William Stewart (1898 – 1978)
The nature of the intra-ocular fluids.
GMN 1530 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2856
1932 DUKE-ELDER, Sir William Stewart (1898 – 1978)
Text-book of ophthalmology. Vol. 1. The development, form, and function of the visual apparatus.
GMN 1531 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2857
1933 WALD, George (1906 – 1997)
Vitamin A in the retina.
Through his research on xerophthalmia, karatomalacia and night blindness Wald revealed the critical function of vitamin A in normal vision and visual pathology. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and their inter…
GMN 1535 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3634
1938 HARTLINE, Haldon Keffer (1903 – 1983)
The responses of single optic nerve fibers of the vertebrate eye to illumination of the retina.
Hartline continued and extended the work initiated by Adrian and Matthews on electrical discharges from the optic nerve. See also his later papers In the same journal, 1940, 130, 690-711. Reprinted with historical int…
GMN 1532 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2858
1941 RIGGS, Lorrin Andrews (1912 – 2008)
Continuous and reproducible records of the electrical activity of the human retina.
Electroretinography
GMN 1533 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2859
1945 –1946 WALD, George (1906 – 1997)
The chemical evolution of vision.
In this paper Wald identified structures for all the visual pigments and their peak absorption wavelengths. He detailed the function of the rods and cones and broke down visual photonic perception at the molecular lev…
GMN 14276 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16598
1947 GRANIT, Ragnar Arthur (1900 – 1991)
Sensory mechanisms of the retina: with an appendix on electroretinography.
An account of twenty years’ work on the electrical responses of the retina, a discussion of visual purple and visual violet, and an exposition of Granit’s hypothesis of colour vision. His researches have done much to …
GMN 1534 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2861
1950 WALD, George (1906 – 1997)
The interconversion of the retinenes and vitamins A in vitro.
Continuing his research on retinal pigments structure and function with emphais on rhodopsin, Wald deciphered the interconversion of rhodopsin to retinene to Vitamin A. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its…
GMN 14277 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16599
1957 POLYAK, Stephen Lucian (1889 – 1955)
The vertebrate visual system. Edited by Heinrich Klüver.
GMN 7404 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9576
