Entry Nos. 5800–5899
95 Garrison-Morton entries in this range.
1841 CE
#5854
On the anatomy and pathology of certain structures in the orbit not previously described.
Ferrall’s operation for enucleation of the eyeball (p. 354).
1842 CE
#5855
A treatise on strabismus, with a description of new instruments designed to improve the operation for its cure.
1842 CE
#5856
Ueber das Schielen und die Heilung desselben durch eine Operation.
The first successful attempt at treating strabismus by myotomy. The operation was later abandoned owing to the frequently disastrous final effects. A preliminary paper appeared in Med. Ztg., 1839, 8, 227.
1843 CE
#5857
Die Krankheiten und Missbildungen des menschlichen Auges und deren Heilung. 2 vols.
Himly was professor of ophthalmology at Jena and later at Göttingen. He introduced clinical teaching in ophthalmology.
1843 CE
#5858
Schriftnummerprobe für Gesichtsleidende.
Küchler introduced test readings of print at a distance, for examination of patients.
1845 CE
#5859
Anatomische Untersuchungen über die sogenannten leuchtenden Augen bei den Wirbelthieren.
Von Brücke studied the luminosity of the eye in animals, and by passing a tube through a candle flame, was able to see the fundus. See also the same journal, 1847, 225-27.
1845 CE
#5860
Ueber die Hornhautflecken.
First description of corneal opacity.
1846 CE
#5861
On a luminous appearance of the human eye, and its application to the detection of disease of the retina and posterior part of the eye.
While a student at the London Hospital, Cumming, by shading the eye of a fellow student from the light, was able to look directly into it and obtain both the retinal reflex and the white light from the entrance of the…
1847 CE
#5862
A manual of the principles and practice of ophthalmic medicine and surgery.
The last important English work on opthalmology published before the invention of the ophthalmoscope. Jones did not appreciate the prototype ophthalmoscope devised by Charles Babbage, and shown to him in 1847. After t…
1847 CE
#5863
Traité théorique et pratique des maladies des yeux.
1850 CE
#5864
Opérations qui se pratiquent sur les yeux.
1851 CE–1856 CE
#5865
Die Krankheiten des Auges. 3 vols.
Arlt described granular conjunctivitis (“Arlt’s trachoma”) and an operation for transplantation of the ciliary bulbs in the treatment of distichiasis.
1851 CE
#5866
Beschreibung eines Augen-Spiegels zur Untersuchung der Netzhaut im lebenden Auge.
Invention of the ophthalmoscope, one of the greatest events in the history of ophthalmology. English translation by T. H. Shastid, Chicago, Cleveland Press, 1916.
1852 CE
#5867
Observations on artificial pupil, with a description of a new method of operating in certain cases.
Bowman devised an operation for the formation of an artificial pupil.
1852 CE–1859 CE
#5868
Iconographie ophtalmologique. 1 vol. and atlas.
This work and that of Ammon (No. 5852) remain the greatest preophthalmoscopic atlases of ophthalmology.
1853 CE–1858 CE
#5869
Die Ophthalmologie vom naturwissenschaftlichen Standpunkte aus bearbeitet. 2 vols. [in 3].
English translation, 1868.
1853 CE
#5870
Ein Fall von Hamorrhagie der Netzhaut beider Augen.
Türck was the first to note the correlation of retinal hemorrhage with tumors of the brain.
1854 CE–1855 CE
#5871
Notiz über die Behandlung der Mydriasis
1854 CE–1855 CE
#5872
Vorlaüfige Notiz über das Wesen des Glaucoms.
1855 CE–1856 CE
#5873
Ueber die Coremorphosis als Mittel gegen chronische Iritis und Iridochorioiditis.
Graefe introduced iridectomy in the treatment of iritis and iridochoroiditis.
1854 CE
#5874
Report on the ophthalmoscope.
Jones reported that Charles Babbage (1792-1871), the computer pioneer, had produced a simple ophthalmoscope in 1847. After the success of Helmholtz’s instrument in 1851 (No. 5866) Jones wrote about Babbage&rsquo…
1854 CE
#5875
Die pyämische Ophthalmie in Beziehung zur feinsten Organisation des Entzündungs-Produkts und zu der eigenthümlichen Struktur des Glaskörpers.
First account of metastatic ophthalmia.
1855 CE
#5876
Quelques considérations sur la nature de l’ophthalmie dite militaire, par rapport à son apparition dans l’armée danoise depuis 1851.
Description of trachoma.
1855 CE
#5877
Ophthalmoskopische Notizen 4. Seitliche Beleuchtung und mikroskopische Untersuchung am lebenden Auge.
Liebreich introduced lateral illumination in microscopic investigation of the living eye.
1856 CE
#5878
Iritis – non-mercurial treatment.
The second and third papers are entitled “On the treatment of iritis without mercury”.
1857 CE–1859 CE
#5879
On the treatment of lacrymal obstructions.
1857 CE
#5880
Beiträge zur Lehre vom Schielen und von der Schiel-Operation.
Graefe’s operation for strabismus.
1857 CE
#5881
Ueber die Iridectomie bei Glaucom und über den glaucomatösen Process.
Iridectomy for the treatment of glaucoma was introduced by Graefe.
1859 CE
#5882
Ueber Embolie der Arteria centralis retinae als Ursache plötzlicher Erblindung.
Discovery of embolism of the retinal artery as a cause of sudden blindness.
1858 CE
#5883
Klinische Analyse der Motilitätsstörungendes Auges.
Alfred Carl Graefe, cousin of Albrecht, made a careful clinical analysis of disordered movements of the eye. He also invented a special “localization ophthalmoscope”, and, with Saemisch, edited the great H…
1859 CE
#5884
Die Krümmung der Homhaut des menschlichen Auges.
Knapp wrote valuable monographs on curvature of the cornea (above) and on intraocular tumours (see No. 5902). He became one of the leading ophthalmologists in America.
1860 CE
#5885
Ueber Complication von Sehnervenentzündung mit Gehimkrankheiten.
Graefe showed that most cases of blindness and impaired vision connected with cerebral disorders are a result of optic neuritis rather than of paralysis of the optic nerve.
1860 CE
#5887
Schriftskalen. 3te. Aufl.
Jaeger first introduced his test types in 1854; Emil Fuchs improved them in 1895.
1860 CE
#5888
On the production of cataract in frogs by the administration of sugar.
1862 CE
#5889
Astigmatisme en cilindrische glazen.
Includes statement of “Donders’s law” – the rotation of the eye around the line of sight is not voluntary. French and German translations, 1862.
1862 CE
#5890
Probebuchstaben zur Bestimmung der Sehschärfe.
Snellen’s test-types (“Optotypi”) which soon gained acceptance in all civilized countries. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1863 CE
#5891
Ein neues und gefahrloses Operations-Verhfahren zur Heilung des grauen Staares.
Jacobson used a peripheral incision in his operation for cataract.
1863 CE
#5892
Atlas der Ophthalmoscopie. Darstellung des Augengrundes im gesunden und krankhaften Zustande enthalten.
First atlas of the fundus. The author was an assistant to Helmholtz at the time of the invention of the ophthalmoscope. The work is illustrated with reproductions of his own paintings. Text in French and German. Engli…
1864 CE
#5893
On the anomalies of accommodation and refraction of the eye… Translated from the author’s manuscript by W.D. Moore.
Donders’s greatest work, the basis for all succeeding studies of the subject, and a classic of physiological optics. It contains Donders’s explanation of astigmatism, his definition of aphakia and hypermet…
1865 CE–1872 CE
#5894
A method of operating for divergent squint.
Agnew devised an operation for the treatment of divergent squint.
1865 CE–1872 CE
#5895
Suture of the flap, after extraction of cataract.
A method of suturing the flap after cataract extraction was introduced by Williams.
1866 CE
#5896
Ueber die Extraktion des grauen Staares bei uneröffneter Kapsel durch den Scleralschnitt. IN Klinische Beobachtungen aus der Augenheilanstalt zu Wiesbaden, hrsg. von E.H. Pagenstecher u. T. Saemisch, Heft 3.
Extraction of the lens in the closed capsule through a scleral incision, for the treatment of cataract.
1865 CE
#5897
Ueber mordificirte Linearextraction.
Graefe’s improvement of the operation for cataract by the modified linear extraction reduced the incidence of eye loss from 10 to 2.3 per cent.
1866 CE
#5898
Zur Lehre der sympathischen Ophthalmie.
A classic contribution to the literature of sympathetic ophthalmia.
1867 CE
#5899
Symptomenlehre der Augenmuskellähmungen.
The first thorough account of paralysis of the eye muscles, and the basis for their surgical treatment. The first section describes conditions resulting from injuries to the eye muscles. The second part outlines physi…