History of Ophthalmology 4: Sub Auspiciis Academiae Ophthalmologicae Intemationalis

ISBN-13: 9780792315452 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 115 str.

Claudia Zrenner; Daniel M. Albert; H. E. Henkes

Opis

This work is part of the Documenta Ophthalmologica series and is divided into three parts: biographies of famous personalities; the history of ideas in ophthalmology and visual sciences; ophthalmology in art and literature.

Spis treści

Theodor Leber’s studies in Paris (1864–1867) as an assistant of Richard Liebreich.- A German oculist in Russia.- Some famous persons with visual problems as shown on postage stamps.- The wanderings of a literary ophthalmologist: A. Conan Doyle, Houdini, and Ada Besinnet.- Herman Snellen (1834–1908) and Müller’s ‘Reform-Auge’.- Willem Vrolik on cyclopia.- The terms glaucoma and cataract in the ancient Greek and Byzantine writers.- Ophthalmological therapy in hospitals (xenones) in Byzantium.