Entry Nos. 5900–5999
98 Garrison-Morton entries in this range.
1869 CE
#1328
Ueber eine Form von Ptosis.
“Horner’s syndrome”, due to lesion of the cervical sympathetic. The same syndrome was evoked in animals by Pourfour du Petit in 1727 (see No. 1313). It is a proof that the sympathetic governs the pup…
1886 CE
#4572
D’un nouveau precédé opératoire applicable au ptosis congénital et au ptosis paralytique.
An operation for congenital and paralytic ptosis was introduced by Panas.
1884 CE
#5678
Vorläufige Mitteilung über locale Anästheserung am Auge.
Introduction of cocaine as a local anesthetic; this was the first local anesthetic employed (16 September 1884). Freud (No. 1880.1) is accredited by some with this innovation, but in this connection see the letter by …
1868 CE
#5900
Ueber Ceratoconus.
Classic description of conical cornea (keratoconus).
1867 CE
#5901
Sur un nouvel instrument pour la détermination de l’astigmatisme.
Javal invented the astigmometer, and described it in the above paper.
1868 CE
#5902
Die intraocularen Geschwülste nach eigenen klinischen Beobachtungen und anatomischen Untersuchungen.
English translation, New York, 1869.
1869 CE
#5904
Opthalmoskopischer Hand-Atlas.
A fine atlas which was for many years unsurpassed. The illustrations were reproduced from Jaeger’s own paintings, each of which required from 20 to 50 sittings of from two to three hours each. English translatio…
1870 CE
#5905
Das Ulcus corneae serpens und seine Therapie.
First description of serpiginous ulcer of the cornea and its treatment. Called also “Saemisch’s ulcer”.
1871 CE
#5906
Ueber hereditäre und congenital-angelegte Sehnervenleiden.
First description of hereditary optic atrophy, “Leber’s optic atrophy”.
1873 CE
#5907
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”.
1873 CE–1874 CE
#5908
Kératoscopie.
Introduction of the shadow test (retinoscopy), sometimes called “Cuignet’s method”.
1873 CE
#5909
Light for the blind: A history of the origin and success of Moon’s system of reading (embossed in various languages) for the blind.
Moon became totally blind at the age of 22. He taught other blind people and devised a simplified form of roman letters, embossed on paper, for use by blind readers. This was in 1845, and two years later he published …
1873 CE–1875 CE
#5910
Atlas der pathologischen Anatomie des Augapfels. Atlas of the pathological anatomy of the eyeball
Text in German and English; Sir W. R. Gowers was responsible for the English translation. Digital facsimile from the Bayerische StaatsBibliothek at this link.
1874 CE
#5911
Om den medfödda, färgblindhetens diagnostic och teori.
Holmgren introduced the wool-skein test for the diagnosis of color-blindness.
1875 CE
#5912
Ueber die Verletzungen des Auges mit besonderer Rücksicht auf deren gerichtsärztliche Würdigung.
English translation by Charles S. Turnbull as Injuries of the eye and their medico-legal aspect. (Philadelpha. 1878). Digital facsimile of the 1875 edition from the Internet Archive at this link; of the 1878 edition f…
1876 CE
#5913
Ueber eine neue therapeutische Verwendung des Physostigmin.
Introduction of physostigmine in the treatment of glaucoma.
1876 CE
#5914
Der Frühjahrskatarrh. In: GRAEFE and SAEMISCH, Handbuch der gesammten Augenheilkunde
First description of vernal conjunctivitis.
1877 CE
#5915
Beziehungen der Allgemein-Leiden und Organ-Erkrankungen zu Veränderungen und Krankheiten des Sehorgans. In: GRAEFE and SAEMISCH, Handbuch der gesammten Augenheilkunde, 7, Theil 5, 59-234
Förster was among the first to study the relationship between eye disease and general and organic disease of the body.
1876 CE–1877 CE
#5916
Om färgblindheten i dess förhallande till jernvägstrafiken och sjöväsendet.
A serious railway accident in Sweden in 1875 was believed by Holmgren to be due to color-blindness, and resulted in the above important paper dealing with the condition and its relation to railway and maritime traffic…
1879 CE
#5917
On astigmatism as a cause for persistent headache and other nervous symptoms.
Thomson was a pioneer in the study of refraction. He was much interested in color-blindness and modified Holmgren’s wool-skein test. Himself affected with hypermetropia, he made important investigations on this …
1880 CE–1881 CE
#5918
Symmetrical changes in the region of the yellow spot in each eye of an infant.
Tay was the first to describe amaurotic familial idiocy, his paper dealing mainly with the ocular manifestations. The condition later became known as “Tay-Sachs’s disease” (see also No. 4705).
1880 CE–1889 CE
#5919
Traité complet de l’ophtalmologie. 4 vols.
1881 CE
#5920
Un ophtalmomètre pratique.
Javal and Schiötz here describe an ophthalmometer invented by them.
1882 CE
#5921
Ein experimenteller Beitrag zur Pathogenese der sympathischen Augen-Entzündung.
Deutschmann was the chief protagonist of the infective theory of sympathetic ophthalmia.
1882 CE
#5922
Neue Instrumente.
Introduction of the keratoscope.
1883 CE
#5923
Bericht über die Thätigkeit der deutschen Cholerakommission in Aegypten und Ostindien.
Koch–Weeks bacillus, Hemophilus conjunctivitidis, or Hemophilus aegyptius. Koch discovered the bacilli of two varieties of Egyptian conjunctivitis. See also No. 5930.
1881 CE
#5924
Die Verhütung der Augenentzüngung der Neugeborenen.
Credé introduced the practice of instillation of silver nitrate into the eyes of all newborn children as a preventive measure against ophthalmia neonatorum. Separate expanded edition with the same title, Berlin…
1885 CE
#5926
Die periphere Atrophie des Sehnerven.
Peripheral atrophy of the optic nerve was described by Fuchs and called “Fuchs’s optic atrophy”.
1885 CE
#5927
Der Electromagnet in der Augenheilkunde.
The introduction of the electromagnet into ophthalmology. A pupil of Helmholtz, Hirschberg was one of the most voluminous writers in the field of ophthalmology. Besides his dictionary (see No. 5932) he wrote a classic…
1885 CE
#5928
On the surgical, physiological, and aesthetic advantages of the artificial vitreous body.
“Mules’s operation”, evisceration of the eyeball with insertion of artificial vitreous.
1886 CE
#5930
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 be…
1887 CE–1888 CE
#5931
Die ärztliche Ueberwachung der Schulen zur Verhütung der Verbreitung der Kurzsichtigkeit.
Cohn was a pioneer in his advocacy of the routine examination of the eyes of schoolchildren.
1887 CE
#5932
Wörterbuch der Augenheilkunde.
1888 CE
#5933
Eine neue Methode der Hornhauttransplantation.
Modern keratoplasty is based on the technique introduced by von Hippel.
1889 CE
#5934
Keratitis punctata superficialis.
Epidemic keratoconjunctivitis first described.
1889 CE
#5935
Lehrbuch der Augenheilkunde.
Fuchs’s textbook was an outstanding contribution to the literature, and was translated into many languages. The last English edition appeared in 1933.
1889 CE
#5936
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.…
1891 CE
#5937
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.
1894 CE
#5938
Ueber die eitrige metastatische Ophthalmie, besonders ihre Aetiologie und prognostische Bedeutung.
Classic account of metastatic ophthalmia.
1894 CE
#5939
Conjonctivite lacrymale à pneumocoques des nouveau-nés.
1895 CE
#5940
Vorstellung eines Patientin mit einem sehr ungewöhnlichen Netzhautbeziehungsweise Aderhautleiden.
First description of angiomatosis of the retina – “Hippel’s disease”.
1897 CE
#5941
Beiträge zur Aetiologie der Bindehautenzündungen. Ueber chronische Diplobacillenconjunctivitis.
Description of the diplobacillary form of chronic conjunctivitis.
1896 CE
#5942
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.
1898 CE
#5943
Die Erkrankungen des Auges im Zusammenhang mit anderen Krankheiten.
Like Förster (No. 5915), Schmidt-Rimpler was interested in the relationship between eye diseases and general organic diseases; like Cohn (No. 5931), he was an advocate of the routine examination of the eyes of sc…
1899 CE–1918 CE
#5944
Handbuch der gesamten Augenheilkunde. 2te. Aufl. 15 vols. [in 41].
The first edition of this great collective work, edited by Graefe and Saemisch, appeared between 1874 and 1880.
1900 CE
#5945
Allgemeine Theorie der monochromatischen Aberrationen und ihre nächsten Ergebnisse für die Ophthalmologie.
The above work is the exposition of Gullstrand's general theory of monochromatic aberrations. This is an offprint from Nova Acta Reg. Soc. Sci. Ups., 1900-01, ser. 3, 20. In 1911 Gullstrand was awarded the Nobel Prize…
1900 CE
#5946
Extractions of cataract in the capsule.
Smith, an officer in the Indian Medical Service, had remarkable success with his method of extraction of cataract within the capsule. He modified his operation in 1926 (Arch. Ophthal. N.Y., 55, 213-24). See also Smith…
1904 CE–1908 CE
#5947
The pathology of the eye. 4 vols.
1904 CE
#5948
Nuovo metodo conservatore di cura radicale delle suppurazioni croniche del sacco lacrimale (dacriocistorinostomia).
Toti’s account of dacryocystorhinostomy, a procedure he himself introduced.
1905 CE
#5949
Die Cyklodialyse, eine neue Glaukomoperation.
Introduction of cyclodialysis in glaucoma.