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1538 CE

#6932

Ein newes hochnutzlichs Büchlin von erkantnus der Kranckheyten der Augen....

The first separate publication on diseases of the eye after Grassi (1474). This very rare anonymous work was intended, according to its title, to provide highly useful knowledge of the anatomy of the eye, and eye dise…

1856 CE

#14062

Kitab-i jarrahi wa yak risalah dar kahhali [in Persian; English translation: Book on surgery with a treatise on ophthalmology]. Lithographed text.

The first Persian-language surgery and ophthalmology textbook based on Western medical science. Polak based his textbook on Joseph Maximilien Chelius’s Handbuch der Chirurgie (1830) and Handbuch der Augenheilkun…

1829 CE

#8925

Procede pour écrire les paroles, la musique et le plain-chant au moyen de points, a l’usage des aveugles et dispose pour eux.

This large quarto volume of 4 preliminary leaves and 32 pages included the first presentation of the Braille system of printing and reading for the blind, which represents letters and numbers by combinations of six do…

1933 CE

#5815.1

(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.

1586 CE

#5819

A briefe treatise touching the preseruation of the eie sight.

This is the first separate work on ophthalmology printed in England.

1931 CE

#4611.2

A clinical study on positional nystagmus in cases of brain tumour.

1971 CE

#6007.1

A history of the ophthalmoscope.

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…

1865 CE–1872 CE

#5894

A method of operating for divergent squint.

Agnew devised an operation for the treatment of divergent squint.

1922 CE

#4150

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 seve…

1927 CE

#5974

A new operation for removing cataracts with their capsules.

Verhoeffs buttonhole iridectomy.

2013 CE

#8760

A perfect vision: Catalogue of the William Holland Wilmer rare book collection

1830 CE

#5848

A practical treatise on diseases of the eye.

In this book Mackenzie, one of the foremost ophthalmologists of his time, included a classic description of the symptomatology of glaucoma, and was probably the first to draw attention to the increase of intra-ocular …

1909 CE

#5955

A preliminary note on a new operative procedure for the establishment of a filtering cicatrix in the treatment of glaucoma.

Elliot, working in 1909 at the Government Ophthalmic Hospital in Madras, began to use a trephine to make a very anterior sclerectomy under a conjunctival flap, coupled with a peripheral iridectomy. See also his Sclero…

1948 CE

#6006

A short history of ophthalmology. 2nd ed.

1820 CE

#5843

A synopsis of the diseases of the eye.

The earliest systematic treatise in English on diseases of the eye. The book became the authority in Europe and America. Travers, a pupil of Sir Astley Cooper, became surgeon to St. Thomas’s Hospital.

1622 CE

#5820

A treatise of one hundred and thirteene diseases of the eyes.

Although much of this is a translation of Guillemeau (No. 5818), the first 112 pages are Banister’s own work, “Banister’s Breviary”. He was an itinerant but honest oculist, the first to point o…

1729 CE

#1482

A treatise of the diseases of the horny coat of the eye, and the various kinds of cataracts.

“Descemet’s membrane” was first described by Duddell. Descemet described it in 1758; see No. 1484.1.

1947 CE

#7396

A treatise on gonioscopy.

The first comprehensive book on gonioscopy.

1842 CE

#5855

A treatise on strabismus, with a description of new instruments designed to improve the operation for its cure.

1833 CE

#5849

A treatise on the diseases of the eye.

Based on lectures delivered by Lawrence at the London Ophthalmic Infirmary. He was a surgeon to St. Bartholomew’s Hospital; he succeeded Abernethy as lecturer on surgery and did much to advance the surgery of th…

1823 CE

#5844

A treatise on the diseases of the eye.

First American textbook of ophthalmology by the first American who is believed to have restricted his practice to diseases of the eye. Frick studied under Georg Beer in Vienna.

1759 CE

#1484.2

A treatise on the eye. The manner and phenomena of vision. 2 vols.

Porterfield was Professor of the Institutes and Practice of Medicine at Edinburgh from 1724-26. His book included many original observations. It was the first important British work on the anatomy and physiology of th…

1871 CE

#13426

A. von Grafe's hinterlassene medizinische u. ophthalmologische Bibliothek, sowie ein Anhang von diversen medizinischen Werken und Suiten von medizinischen Journalen zu Antiquarpreisen durch die Hirschwald'sche Buchhandlung in Berlin.

1801 CE

#1489

Abbildungen des menschlichen Auges.

Soemmerring is best remembered for his fine anatomical illustrations, of which those devoted to the human eye are a good example. In 1791 he made important observations on the macula lutea: "De foramine centrali limbo…

1949 CE

#5990.1

Actual técnica de elecciόn en queratoplastia penetrante.

Barraquer’s method of corneal graft fixation by minute direct interrupted stitches.

1539 CE

#6933

Alle Kranckheyt der Augen ... allen augen artzten hochnöttig zuwissen ....

The first work on ophthalmology after Grassi (1474) written by a known physician. At the end of the anonymous Büchlin issued by the same publisher in 1538 (No. 6932) the writer promises a bigger and better work o…

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…

1819 CE

#1491

An account of a membrane in the eye, now first described.

“Jacob’s membrane”, the layer of the retina containing the rods and cones.

1777 CE

#5832

An account of persons who could not distinguish colours.

First reliable record of color blindness. Written in the form of a letter to Joseph Priestley, who communicated it to the Royal Society. Huddart was a British hydrographer, engineer and inventor.

1729 CE

#5828

An account of some observations made by a young gentleman who was born blind, or lost his sight so early, that he had no remembrance of ever having seen, and was couch’d between 13 and 14 yrs. of age.

The versatile Cheselden made an artificial pupil in an eye in which the products of inflammation had closed or obscured the natural pupil. This iridotomy operation was, next to Daviel’s cataract operation, the m…

1751 CE

#1381

An essay on the vital and other involuntary motions of animals.

Whytt, famous Edinburgh neurophysiologist, was the first to prove that the response of the pupils to light is a reflex action (“Whytt’s reflex”). He described this reflex at length and mentioned that…

1837 CE

#5850.1

An inquiry into the possibility of transplanting the cornea, with the view of relieving blindness…

Bigger, a Dublin surgeon, successfully grafted a cornea of one gazelle onto that of another. According to this paper, he first performed this operation in 1835 while he was “a prisoner with a Nomadic tribe of Ar…

1758 CE

#1484.1

An sola lens crystallina cataracte sedes?

“Descemet’s membrane”, the posterior membrane of the cornea; see No. 1482.

1574 CE

#1479

Anatomici libri II … In altero de musculis, palpebrarum atque oculorum motibus deservientibus, accurate disseritur.

First exact description of the lacrimal duct. Carcano gave the true position of the lacrimal gland and showed the route taken by the tears.

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.

1974 CE

#8280

Ancient ophthalmological agents: A pharmaco-historical study of the collyria and seals used during Roman antiquity, as well as of the most frequent components of the collyria.

1912 CE

#5962

Angiopathia retinae traumatica. Lymphorrhagien des Augengrundes.

“Purtscher’s disease”, traumatic angiopathy of the retina, first described.

2009 CE

#13662

Art and ophthalmology: The impact of eye diseases on painters. Translated by Colin Mailer.

1830 CE

#1456.1

Arteriarum capitis superficialium icon nova.

Includes description of the “canal of Schlemm”, the circular canal at the junction of the cornea and the sclerotic.

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.

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…

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–1878 CE

#11619

Atlas der pathologischen Topographie des Auges. 3 vols.

1921 CE

#1527

Atlas der Spaltlampenmikroskopie des lebenden Auges.

An important work on the biomicroscopy of the eye. Second ed. greatly revised and enlarged, vol. 1-2, Springer, 1930-31; vol. 3, Stuttgart, F. Enke, 1942; vol. 3 (English translation) Zurich, 1947. Second ed. reprinte…

1978 CE–1980 CE

#13656

Atlas on the history of spectacles. 2 vols.

Vol. 1 catalogues spectacles from the collections of Carl Zeiss, Otto Hallauer, and Pierre Marly. Translated from the German by Frederick C. Blodi with an introduction by Wolfgang Pfeiffer, ‘A Short History of S…

1898 CE

#4791

Augenkrisen bei Tabes dorsalis.

“Pel’s crises” – the ocular crises in tabes.

1932 CE

#5984

Behandlung der Netzhautabhebung mit Elektroden für multiple diathermische Stichelung.

Safar’s method of treatment of retinal detachment.

1845 CE

#1503

Beitrag zur physiologischen Optik.

1897 CE

#5941

Beiträge zur Aetiologie der Bindehautenzündungen. Ueber chronische Diplobacillenconjunctivitis.

Description of the diplobacillary form of chronic conjunctivitis.