1886 WEEKS, John Elmer (1853 – 1949)
The bacillus of acute conjunctival catarrh or “pink eye”.
In 1883 Koch discovered the bacilli of two different forms of infectious conjunctivitis (Egyptian ophthalmia); in 1886. Weeks discovered the same organism to be the cause of “pink-eye”. The organism has become known a…
GMN 5930 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6860
1889 FUCHS, Ernst (1851 – 1930)
Keratitis punctata superficialis.
Epidemic keratoconjunctivitis first described.
GMN 5934 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6875
1889 PARINAUD, Henri (1844 – 1905); GALEZOWSKI, Xavier (1832 – 1907)
Conjonctivite infectieuse transmise par les animaux.
Parinaud described an infectious tuberculous conjunctivitis transmissible from animals to man. In 1924 Gifford suggested the name “Parinaud’s oculo-glandular syndrome” as a more suitable description. See also Rec. Oph…
GMN 5936 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6889
1894 PARINAUD, Henri (1844 – 1905)
Conjonctivite lacrymale à pneumocoques des nouveau-nés.
GMN 5939 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6899
1896 MORAX, Victor (1866 – 1935)
Note sur un diplobacille pathogène pour la conjunctiva humaine.
Morax and Axenfeld (No. 5941) independently isolated a diplobacillus which causes a chronic conjunctivitis – the Morax – Axenfeld haemophilus.
GMN 5942 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6909
1897 AXENFELD, Karl Theodor Paul Polykarpos (1867 – 1930)
Beiträge zur Aetiologie der Bindehautenzündungen. Ueber chronische Diplobacillenconjunctivitis.
Description of the diplobacillary form of chronic conjunctivitis.
GMN 5941 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6905
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
1907 AXENFELD, Karl Theodor Paul Polykarpos (1867 – 1930)
Die Bakteriologie in der Augenheilkunde.
Translated into English by Angus McNab as The bacteriology of the eye (London: Ballière, Tyndall & Cox, 1908, and New York: William Wood & Co, 1908).
GMN 7395 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9567
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
1912 BOTTERI, Albert (1879 – 1955)
Klinische, experimentelle und mikroskopische Studien über Trachom, Einschlussblenorrhöe und Frühjahrskatarrh.
Filtration of the virus of inclusion conjunctivitis.
GMN 5960 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6978
1912 NICOLLE, Charles Jules Henri (1866 – 1936); ET AL
Le magot animal réactif du trachôme. Filtrabilité du virus. Pouvoir infectant des larmes.
Filtration of the trachoma agent, Chlamydia trachomatis. With L. Blaisot and A. Cuénod.
GMN 5961 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6981
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
1916 REITER, Hans Conrad Julius (1881 – 1969)
Ueber eine bisher unerkannte Spirochäteninfektion (Spirochaetosis arthritica).
“Reiter’s syndrome”, a disease of males characterized by initial diarrhea, urethritis, conjunctivitis, and arthritis. Reiter was a German Nazi physician and war criminal who conducted medical experiments at Buchenwald…
GMN 6371 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8304
1922 STEVENS, Albert Mason (1884 – 1945); JOHNSON, Frank Chambliss (1894 – 1934)
A new eruptive fever associated with stomatitis and ophthalmia; report of two cases in children.
“Stevens-Johnson syndrome”, a generalized eruption, continued fever, inflamed buccal mucosa, and severe purulent conjunctivitis. B.A. Thomas (Brit. med. J., 1950, 1, 1393) believes this to be merely a severe form of H…
GMN 4150 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5844
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
1927 NOGUCHI, Hideyo (1876 – 1928)
Experimental production of a trachoma-like condition in monkeys by means of a micro-organism isolated from American Indian trachoma.
Isolation of Bact. granulosis, believed by Noguchi to be the causal organism in trachoma. See also his monograph in J. exp. Med., 1928, 48, Suppl. 2.
GMN 5973 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7025
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
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
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
2020 GELLER, Markham J.; PANAYOTOV, Strahil V.
Mesopotamian eye disease texts: The Nineveh treatise.
"This volume is the first complete edition and commentary on Mesopotamian medicine from Nineveh dealing with diseases of the eye. This ancient work, languishing in British Museum archives since the 19th century, is pr…
GMN 12537 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14774
2020 LEFFLER, Christopher T.
The history of glaucoma.
GMN 13658 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15939
