1853 TÜRCK, Ludwig (1810 – 1868)

Ein Fall von Hamorrhagie der Netzhaut beider Augen.

Türck was the first to note the correlation of retinal hemorrhage with tumors of the brain.

GMN 5870 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7261

1859 GRAEFE, Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst Albrecht von (1828 – 1870)

Ueber Embolie der Arteria centralis retinae als Ursache plötzlicher Erblindung.

Discovery of embolism of the retinal artery as a cause of sudden blindness.

GMN 5882 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7284

1865 HOLMGREN, Alarik Frithiof (1831 – 1897)

Method att objectivera effecten av ljusintryck pa retina.

Discovery of the electroretinogram, the beginning of the use of electrophysiological methods for studying visual systems.

GMN 1511.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2602

1873 BERLIN, Rudolf (1833 – 1897)

Zur sogenannten Commotio retinae.

Berlin, professor of ophthalmology at Rostock, described the traumatic edema of the retina which is sometimes referred to as “Berlin’s edema”.

GMN 5907 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6779

1873 –1874 CUIGNET, Ferdinand Louis Joseph (1823 – 1890)

Kératoscopie.

Introduction of the shadow test (retinoscopy), sometimes called “Cuignet’s method”.

GMN 5908 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6782

1912 PURTSCHER, Ottmar (1852 – 1927)

Angiopathia retinae traumatica. Lymphorrhagien des Augengrundes.

“Purtscher’s disease”, traumatic angiopathy of the retina, first described.

GMN 5962 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6984

1927 GONIN, Jules (1870 – 1935)

Nouveaux cas de guérison opératoire de décollements rétiniens.

Gonin’s operation of ignipuncture for treatment of detachment of the retina.

GMN 5972 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7022

1931 GUIST, Gustav

Eine neue Ablatiooperation.

Guist’s operation for detachment of the retina (multiple trephining and chemical cauterization of the choroid).

GMN 5980 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7053

1932 SAFAR, Karl Josef (1892 – 1963)

Behandlung der Netzhautabhebung mit Elektroden für multiple diathermische Stichelung.

Safar’s method of treatment of retinal detachment.

GMN 5984 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7063

1939 KEITH, Norman Macdonnell (1885 – 1976); WAGENER, Henry Patrick (1890 – 1961)

Diffuse arteriolar disease with hypertension and the associated retinal lesions.

The Keith–Wagener classification of fundal lesions. They classified essential hypertension into four groups.

GMN 2723 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4454