Facets

1585 CE

#5818

Traité des maladies de l’oeil.

The first French work on ophthalmology. Guillemeau was a pupil and son-in-law of Ambroise Paré; his book was an epitome of the existing knowledge on the subject, chiefly from Greek and Arabian sources. English …

1818 CE

#5842.1

Traité des maladies des yeux. 3 vols. and atlas.

Includes the first description of glaucoma in which heightened intraocular pressure is recognized, credit for which goes to the author’s father, Pierre Demours (1702-95), whose portrait appears in the atlas in r…

1871 CE

#10123

Traité des opérations qui se pratiquent sur l'oeil.

Published in fascicules beginning in 1870. Includes 22 original mounted albumen photographs by Montméja illustrating chapters on cataract, iridectomy, strabismus, eyelids, and lacrymal passages. There are also …

1847 CE

#5863

Traité théorique et pratique des maladies des yeux.

1930 CE

#5979

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.

1935 CE

#5986

Transplantation of the cornea.

Earlier papers recording the important work of Filatov on corneal transplantation appeared in Russian journals.

1889 CE

#4576

Tremblement avec paralysie croisée du moteur oculaire commun.

“Benedikt’s syndrome”–paralysis of the oculomotor nerve on one side with intensive trembling of the other side. English translation in Wolf, The classical brain stem syndromes, Springfield, Cha…

1684 CE

#5822

Two remarkable cases relating to vision.

Includes the first known description of nyctalopia.

1909 CE

#5956

Über Epithelzellveränderungen beim Trachom und andern Conjunctivalerkrankungen.

Demonstration of the inclusion bodies in ophthalmia neonatorum.

1907 CE

#5951

Über Zelleinschlüsse parasitärer Natur beim Trachom.

Halberstaedter and Prowazek first described the cytoplasmic inclusion bodies of trachoma, Chlamydia trachomatis.

1868 CE

#4056.1

Ueber Cataracten in Verbindung mit einer eigenthümlichen Haut-de-generation.

Poikiloderma congenitale (Rothmund).

1868 CE

#5900

Ueber Ceratoconus.

Classic description of conical cornea (keratoconus).

1860 CE

#4536

Ueber Complication von Sehnervenentzündung mit Gehimkrankheiten

Graefe showed that most cases of blindness and impaired vision connected with cerebral disorders can be traced to optic neuritis rather than paralysis of the optic nerve.

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.

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.

1930 CE

#5976

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.

1852 CE

#1507

Ueber den Einfluss des Nervensystems auf die Bewegung der Iris.

1876 CE

#1518

Ueber den feineren Bau der Chorioidea des Menschen nebst Beiträgen zur pathologischen und vergleichenden Anatomie der Aderhaut.

“Sattler’s layer” of the choroid.

1878 CE

#1519

Ueber den Sehpurpur.

Kühne was Professor of Physiology at Amsterdam and Heidelberg. Among his best work is his investigation of visual purple (rhodopsin) which he was first to extract from the retina. Several other papers by him on t…

1854 CE–1855 CE

#1509

Ueber die Accommodation des Auges.

Helmholtz determined the optical constants and explained the mechanism of accommodation, with the help of the ophthalmometer which he had invented in 1852.

1855 CE

#1510

Ueber die Bewegung der Iris: Für Physiologen und Ärzte,

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

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.

1894 CE

#5938

Ueber die eitrige metastatische Ophthalmie, besonders ihre Aetiologie und prognostische Bedeutung.

Classic account of metastatic ophthalmia.

1875 CE

#3941

Ueber die Erkrankungen des Auges bei Diabetes mellitus.

A record of Leber’s important studies on the disorders of the eye in diabetes.

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.

1896 CE

#1524

Ueber die Funktion der Netzhautstäbchen.

On the function of the retinal rods.

1845 CE

#5860

Ueber die Hornhautflecken.

First description of corneal opacity.

1857 CE

#5881

Ueber die Iridectomie bei Glaucom und über den glaucomatösen Process.

Iridectomy for the treatment of glaucoma was introduced by Graefe.

1803 CE

#5838

Ueber die Krankheiten des Thränenorgans.

Schmidt was Professor of Ophthalmology at Vienna. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1874 CE–1879 CE

#1516

Ueber die Kreuzung der Fasern im Chiasma nervorum opticorum.

Important studies on the partial decussation of optic paths.

1852 CE

#1508

Ueber die Theorie der zusammengesetzten Farben.

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…

1916 CE

#6371

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 experim…

1892 CE

#3506

Ueber eine eigenartige symmetrische Erkrankung der Thränen- und Mundspeicheldrüsen.

First description of the syndrome of symmetrical inflammation of the lacrymal and salivary glands (“Mikulicz’s disease”). English translation in Medical Classics, 1937, 2, 165-86.

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…

1876 CE

#5913

Ueber eine neue therapeutische Verwendung des Physostigmin.

Introduction of physostigmine in the treatment of glaucoma.

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.

1933 CE

#5985

Ueber Haftgläser und Kontaktschalen.

Contact lenses introduced. See also No. 5976.

1871 CE

#5906

Ueber hereditäre und congenital-angelegte Sehnervenleiden.

First description of hereditary optic atrophy, “Leber’s optic atrophy”.

1878 CE

#5916.1

Ueber Keratoplastik.

Sellerbeck was first to use human donor corneas for transplants. He was not very successful, probably because the antiseptics employed were too strong.

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.

1801 CE

#5836

Ueber Nachstaar und Iritis nach Staaroperationen.

Inflammation of the iris was named iritis by Schmidt. In 1801, with Himly, he founded the first journal devoted to ophthalmology, the Ophthalmologische Bibliothek. Digital facsimile of Schmidt's 1801 work from the Int…

1886 CE

#3389.1

Ueber Nystagmus und associierte Augenbewegungsversuche bei Hystero-Epileptischen.

Rotational nystagmus described. First published in Magyar in Orvosi Hetilap, 1886, 30, 857, 889.

1884 CE

#4567

Ueber periodisch wiederkehrende Oculomotoriuslähmung.

“Möbius’s disease” – ophthalmoplegic migraine.

1881 CE

#5920

Un ophtalmomètre pratique.

Javal and Schiötz here describe an ophthalmometer invented by them.

1917 CE

#5965

Un procédé d’extrême douceur pour l’extraction “in toto” de la cataracte.

Attempts to extract cataract by suction and aspiration date from ancient times. Barraquer employed a special machine of his own invention. His co-author Anduyned, seems to be identified by last name only.

1844 CE

#1501

Untersuchungen zur Kenntniss des körnigen Pigments der Wirbelthiere in physiologischer und pathologischer Hinsicht.

Includes a description of “Bruch’s membrane” of the choroid.

1623 CE

#5821

Uso del los antojos para todo genero de vistas, en que se enseña a conocer los grados que a cada uno le faltan de su vista, y los que tienen qualesquier antojos.

The earliest scientific work dealing with spectacles. It includes sight testing tables and points out the value of convex lenses after cataract operations. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link. Eng…

1911 CE

#5959

Vacuum fixation of the lens and flap suture in the extraction of a cataract in its capsule.

Hulen devised a vacuum method of cataract extraction.

1933 CE

#1535

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…