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
1922 TSCHERNING, Marius Hans Erik (1854 – 1939)
L’adaption compensatrice de l’oeil.
Introduction of the photometric spectacle lens.
GMN 5967 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7001
1922 SELIGMANN, Siegfried (1870 – 1926)
Die Zauberkraft des Auges und das Berufen. Ein Kapitel der Geschichte der Aberglaubens.
GMN 9249 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11431
1925 URIBE Y TRONCOSO, Manuel (1867 – 1959)
Gonioscopy and its clinical applications.
Troncoso’s gonioscope.
GMN 5968 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7005
1925 WOODS, Alan Churchill (1889 – 1963)
Diseases of the uvea. I. Sympathetic ophthalmia: the use of uveal pigment in diagnosis and treatment.
Intradermal pigment test in sympathetic ophthalmitis.
GMN 5969 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7008
1925 STROMAYR, Caspar ( – 1566); BRUNN, Walter Albert Ferdinand von (1876 – 1952)
Die Handschrift des Schnitt- und Augenarztes Caspar Stromayr in Lindau im Bodensee: In der Lindauer Handschrift (P.1.46) vom 4. Juli 1559. Mit einer historischen Einführung und Wertung von Walter von Brunn.
Stroymayr's manuscript was discovered in Lindau in 1909, and remained unpublished until the above edition, which reproduced his drawings in color. Like Bartisch (No. 5817) Stromayr specialized in hernia repair and eye…
GMN 3573.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8659
1926 HAMBURGER, Carl (1870 – 1944)
Glaukosantropfen, Glaukomund Akkommodation.
Introduction of glaucosan.
GMN 5970 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7013
1926 LINDAU, Arvid Vilhelm (1892 – 1958)
Studien über Kleinhirncysten. Bau, Pathogenese und Beziehungen zur Angiomatosis retinae.
Lindau’s important histological study of hemangiomatosis retinae (“Lindau’s disease”).
GMN 5971 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7018
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
1927 BLACKLOCK, Donald Breadalbane (1879 – 1955)
The insect transmission of Onchocerca volvulus (Leuckart, 1893), the cause of worm nodules in man in Africa.
The fly Simulium damnosum shown to be the vector of onchocerciasis.
GMN 5350.8 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6874
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
1927 VERHOEFF, Frederick Herman (1874 – 1968)
A new operation for removing cataracts with their capsules.
Verhoeffs buttonhole iridectomy.
GMN 5974 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7028
1928 MEYERHOF, Max (1874 – 1945); HUNAYN IBN ISHAQ [أبو زيد حنين بن إسحاق العبادي; ’ABŪ ZAYD ḤUNAYN IBN ’ISḤĀQ AL-‘IBĀDĪ], (Latin: Iohannitius) (809 – 873)
The book of the ten treatises on the eye ascribed to Hunain Ibn Is-hâq. The earliest existing systematic text-book of ophthalmology. The Arabic text from the only two known manuscripts, with an English translation and glossary by Max Meyerhof.
The earliest extant systematic textbook of ophthalmology. The Arabs were the first to make a specialty of ophthalmology.
GMN 5814.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7003
1928 MANN, Ida Caroline (1893 – 1983)
The development of the human eye.
The first monograph on the subject, illustrated with drawings by the author.
GMN 7392 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9564
1929 WOOD, Casey Albert (1856 – 1942); GRASSI, Benevenuto [Benevenutus Grassus] (1100 – )
Benevenutus Grassus of Jerusalem De oculis eorumque egritudinibus et curis: Translated with notes and illustrations from the first printed edition, Ferrara, 1474 A.D
GMN 9629 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11816
1930 ELSCHNIG, Anton (1863 – 1939)
Keratoplasty.
Elschnig developed the method of corneal grafting introduced by von Hippel (No. 5933) and produced good results on the human eye.
GMN 5975 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7031
1930 HEINE, Leopold (1870 – 1940)
Ueber den Ausgleich sämtlicher Brechungsfehler des Auges durch geschliffene Haftgläser (unter den Lidern getragene Schalen).
The manufacture of modern contact lenses was made possible by the work of Heine. See also his paper in Lancet, 1931, 1, 631-32. For a brief history of this subject, see Schweiz, med. Wschr., 1946, 76, 719.
GMN 5976 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7034
1930 LARSSON, Sven
Operative Behandlung von Netzhautabhebung mit Elektroendothermie und Trepanation; vorläufige Mitteilung.
Superficial diathermy treatment of retinal detachment. See also Arch Ophthal. (N.Y.), 1932, 7, 661-80.
GMN 5977 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7043
1930 MOORE, Robert Foster (1878 – 1963)
Choroidal sarcoma treated by the intra-ocular insertion of radon needles.
Foster Moore’s technique for the radiation treatment of choroidal neoplasms.
GMN 5978 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7046
1930 THOMAS, Sir James William Tudor (1893 – 1976)
Transplantation of cornea: a preliminary report on a series of experiments on rabbits.
See also his paper in Brit. J. Ophthal., 1934, 18, 129-42.
GMN 5979 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7050
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 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
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
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
1932 CASTROVIEJO, Ramon (1904 – 1987)
Keratoplasty. A historical and experimental study, including a new method.
Castroviejo’s method of keratoplasty.
GMN 5981 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7058
1932 LÓPEZ LACARRERE, Julio (1895 – )
Nuestro método original de extracciόn total de la catarata senil: la electrodiafaquia. Primeros ensayos.
Intracapsular extraction of cataract by diathermy with the electro-diaphake. Preliminary report in Klin. Mbl. Augenheilk., 1932, 88, 778-83.
GMN 5983 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7060
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
1932 –1957 SUTCLIFFE, John Hamer (1867 – 1941); MITCHELL, Margaret ( – 1993); CHITTELL, Edith
British Optical Association Library and Museum catalogue. 3 vols.
Vol. 1 primarlily by Sutcliffe; vol.3 by Mitchell. The 3 volumes describe more than 1000 items; every entry is annotated. The first volume is extensively illustrated.
GMN 7023 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9190
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
1933 MEYERHOF, Max (1874 – 1945); AL-GHAFIQI, Muhammad ibn Aslam ( – 1165)
(Al-morchid fi'l-kohhl) ou, Le guide d'oculistique: Ouvrage inédit de l'oculiste arabe-espagnol, Mohammad ibn Qassoum ibn Aslam al-Ghafiqi (XIIe siècle); traduction des parties ophtalmologiques d’après le manuscrit conservé à la bibliothèque de l’Escurial par Max Meyerhof.
GMN 5815.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7012
1933 DALLOS, Josef (1905 – 1979)
Ueber Haftgläser und Kontaktschalen.
Contact lenses introduced. See also No. 5976.
GMN 5985 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7066
1933 JAMES, Robert Rutson (1881 – 1959)
Studies in the history of ophthalmology in England prior to the year 1800.
GMN 6004 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7148
1934 GONIN, Jules (1870 – 1935)
Le décollement de la rétine.
GMN 7403 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9575
1934 STRONG, Richard Pearson (1872 – 1948); BEQUAERT, Joseph Charles (1886 – 1982); SANDGROUND, Jack Henry (1899 – 1987); OCHOA, Miguel Muños
Onchocerciasis: With special reference to the Central American form of the disease. Parts I, II, III, and IV
In depth study of onchcerciasis in Guatemala, where "the disease was of real importance to human beings" at the time. Each of the 4 authors contributed a separate part of the report.
GMN 12575 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14814
1935 FILATOV, Vladimir Petrovich (1875 – 1956)
Transplantation of the cornea.
Earlier papers recording the important work of Filatov on corneal transplantation appeared in Russian journals.
GMN 5986 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7070
1936 WOOD, Casey Albert (1856 – 1942); IBN 'ISÃ AL-KAHHAL, Ali (Jesu Occulist) (980 – )
Memorandum book of a tenth-century oculist for the use of modern ophthalmologists. A translation of the Tadhkirat.
The Tadhkirat al-Kahhalin was one of the oldest and best of the medieval Arabic works on ophthalmology. It carefully described 130 diseases of the eye and became the standard work on the subject in the Middle East. Ge…
GMN 5815 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7009
1937 MANN, Ida Caroline (1893 – 1983)
Developmental abnormalities of the eye.
GMN 5987 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7073
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
1937 MARZIO, Qurino di (1883 – 1954)
Fundus oculi: diagnostica oftalmoscopica…
The first atlas of ophthalmoscopy published in Italy, considered by many to be the most beautiful ever published. German translation, Torino, Rosenberg und Sellier, [1941]. Some copies of that edition contain an Engli…
GMN 5988.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7080
1937 MEYERHOF, Max (1874 – 1945); IBN ALĪ AL MAUSILĪ, 'Ammār (996 – 1020)
The cataract operations of 'Ammar Ibn Alī Al-Mausilī by Max Meyerhof.
Mausilī invented a hollow metallic syringe, which he applied through the sclerotic, and successfully extracted cataracts through suction.
GMN 9441 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11624
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
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
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
1941 POLYAK, Stephen Lucian (1889 – 1955)
The anatomy and the histology of the retina in man, ape, and monkey.
A scholarly tour-de-force with a bibliography of over 700 references.
GMN 1533.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2860
1941 GREGG, Sir Norman McAlister (1892 – 1966)
Congenital cataract following German measles in the mother.
Gregg drew attention to congenital defects in infants following rubella in the mother during the early part of pregnancy.
GMN 5507 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6499
1942 TERRY, Theodore Lasater (1899 – 1946)
Extreme prematurity and fibroblastic overgrowth of persistent vascular sheath behind each crystalline lens. I. Preliminary report.
Retrolental fibroplasia first described. See also the same volume, pp. 1409-23, and Trans. Sect. Ophthal. Amer. med. Ass., 1942, 213-29, for later papers.
GMN 5989 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7083
1942 OBRIG, Theodore E. (1896 – 1967)
Contact lenses.
The first book on contact lenses, recording attempts over the previous hundred years to fit a lens in direct contact with the eye. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 7400 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9572
1943 HUGHES, Wendell L. (1900 – 1994)
Reconstructive surgery of the eyelids.
Most of this work is a very carefully documented history of the subject. Bibliography of 451 references.
GMN 5768.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6760
