Facets

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…

1798 CE

#5834

Extraordinary facts relating to the vision of colours.

First scientific description of color-blindness, or “Daltonism”. Dalton himself suffered from red–green blindness. His paper was read to the Society in 1794.

1942 CE

#5989

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.

1996 CE

#7024

Eye and instruments: Nineteenth-century ophthalmological instruments in the Netherlands.

Extremely high quality color images throughout compliment the expert text.

1908 CE

#5954

Forms of retinal disease with massive exudation.

“Coats’s disease” (retinitis circinata).

1937 CE

#5988.1

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…

1899 CE–1918 CE

#5996

Geschichte der Augenheilkunde. 10 pts.

This monumental work remains the authoritative encyclopaedic history of ophthalmology, up to the first decade of the 20th century. Its thoroughness and critical judgment mark it as one of the greatest of all histories…

1905 CE

#6001

Geschichte der Augenheilkunde. Handbuch der Geschichte de Medizin 3, 489-572

1877 CE

#5994

Geschichte der Ophthalmologie. In: GRAEFE and SAEMISCH, Handbuch der gesammten Augenheilkunde 7, Theil 5, 235-554

The first systematic history of the subject.

1961 CE

#6007

Geschichte der Tonometrie.

Revised and enlarged English translation with deceptive title: Tonometry: physical fundamentals, development of methods and clinical application, New York, Hafner, 1966.

1876 CE

#5993

Geschichte des grauen Staares.

An early history of cataract.

1926 CE

#5970

Glaukosantropfen, Glaukomund Akkommodation.

Introduction of glaucosan.

1925 CE

#5968

Gonioscopy and its clinical applications.

Troncoso’s gonioscope.

1838 CE

#5853

Guide pratique pour l’étude et le traitement des maladies des yeux. 2 vols.

Carron du Villards taught ophthalmology in Paris; his book is one of the best of the period.

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.

1867 CE

#1513

Handbuch der physiologischen Optik. 1 vol. and atlas.

Includes Helmholtz’s revival of the Young theory of color vision. English translation by J.P.C. Southall of 3rd German edition, 3 vols., Menasha, Wis., 1924-25.

1874 CE

#4551

Headaches, from heat-stroke, from fevers, after meningitis, from overuse of brain, from eyestrain.

Mitchell drew attention to the importance of eyestrain as a cause of headache.

1903 CE

#5999

Histoire de l’ophtalmologie. In. P.F. Lagrange and E. Valude: Encyclopédie française d’ophtalmologie, Paris, 1, 1-86.

1901 CE

#5998

Histoire des lunettes.

1971 CE

#7405

Histology of the human eye.

Hogan and Alvarado's work was the first book on histology of the eye to include electron microscopy. It also reproduced spectacular three-dimensional representations of ocular ultrastructures by Joan Esperson Weddell.

1986 CE

#5768.8

History and tradition [of ophthalmic plastic surgery].

A collection of articles by various authors, including partial reprint of No. 5768.1 and 6005.

2002 CE

#13659

History of strabismology.

1761 CE

#7669

History of the travels and adventures of the Chevalier John Taylor, ophthalmiater; pontifical imperial and royal to the Kings of Poland, Denmark, Sweden, the electors of the Holy Empire, the princes of Saxegotha, Mecklenburg, Anspach, Brunswick, Parma, Modena... Addressed to his only son.

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.

1913 CE

#11249

Important discovery in tropical medicine: Metamorphosis of Filaria Loa.

Leiper discovered diurnal periodicity in Filaria Loa, as the worm embryos are found in the blood only during day, as an adaptation to the day-biting habits of their insect vector, a biting fly of the genus Chrysopa. T…

1951 CE

#5991

Intra-ocular acrylic lenses.

Ridley implanted the first intra-ocular lens on 19 November 1949. At the time of this first report the lens had remained in place for 17 months.

1912 CE

#5963

Intrakapsuläre Staroperationen.

Stanculeanu’s technique for cataract extraction.

1907 CE

#5952

Iridencleisis antiglaucomatosa.

Introduction of iridencleisis for glaucoma.

1856 CE

#5878

Iritis – non-mercurial treatment.

The second and third papers are entitled “On the treatment of iritis without mercury”.

1901 CE

#13429

Katalog der Bücher-Sammlung von J. Hirschberg. (Vom Verfasser Überreicht.)

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1889 CE

#5934

Keratitis punctata superficialis.

Epidemic keratoconjunctivitis first described.

1930 CE

#5975

Keratoplasty.

Elschnig developed the method of corneal grafting introduced by von Hippel (No. 5933) and produced good results on the human eye.

1932 CE

#5981

Keratoplasty. A historical and experimental study, including a new method.

Castroviejo’s method of keratoplasty.

1873 CE–1874 CE

#5908

Kératoscopie.

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

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…

1838 CE–1847 CE

#5852

Klinische Darstellungen der Krankheiten und Bildungsfehler des menschlichen Auges, der Augenlider und der Thränenwerkzeuge nach eigenen Beobachtungen und Untersuchungen. 4 pts.

This great color-plate atlas is probably the best summary of the knowledge of diseases of the eye prior to the introduction of the ophthalmoscope.

1912 CE

#5960

Klinische, experimentelle und mikroskopische Studien über Trachom, Einschlussblenorrhöe und Frühjahrskatarrh.

Filtration of the virus of inclusion conjunctivitis.

1888 CE

#1521

Kort öfversigt af läran om lokalisationen i hjernbarken.

Discovery of the cortical visual center.

1994 CE

#8281

L'ophtalmologie dans l'Egypte gréco-romaine d'après les papyrus littéraires grecs.

1922 CE

#5967

L’adaption compensatrice de l’oeil.

Introduction of the photometric spectacle lens.

1958 CE

#7401

L’Hérédité en ophtalmologie.

English translation St. Louis: C.V. Mosby, 1961.

1990 CE

#7135

Laser in situ keratomileusis.

Though several researchers developed the procedures for using an excimer laser to perform in situ karatomileusis (LASIK), "Pallikaris also independently conceived of a hinged flap using a microkeratome he had specific…

1934 CE

#7403

Le décollement de la rétine.

1823 CE

#5845

Lectures on the operative surgery of the eye.

Guthrie founded the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital, London, in 1816. He was the earliest teacher of the subject in the British Isles. The above includes important work on the artificial pupil.

1849 CE

#1505

Lectures on the parts concerned in the operations on the eye, and on the structure of the retina.

Bowman did more than any other man to advance ophthalmic surgery in England. The above work is the first to include a sound description of the microscopical anatomy of the eye and the ciliary (“Bowman’s&rd…

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.

1813 CE–1817 CE

#5842

Lehre von den Augenkrankheiten. 2 vols.

Beer is remembered for his textbook; the doctrines in it dominated practice for many years. He described the symptoms of glaucoma and noted the luminosity of the fundus in aniridia. He also presented for the first tim…

1959 CE

#7402

Les cataractes congénitales.

1748 CE

#13777

Lettre de M. Daviel, conseiller, chirurgien ordinaire du roi en survivance & par quartier, à M. de Joyeuse, docteur en médecine de l’Université de Montpellier ....

The first account of cataract extraction. Daviel also published this in the Mercure de France in September 1748, pp. 198-218. The separate edition, a 24-page pamphlet, was printed from a different setting of type.

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 …