Men of vision : lives of notable figures in ophthalmology / Daniel M. Albert and Paul Henkind.

  • Albert, Daniel M.
Date:
[1993], ©1993
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Publication/Creation

Philadelphia : Saunders, [1993], ©1993.

Physical description

xi, 409 pages : portraits ; 24 cm.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. [393]-409).

Contents

Dawning of ophthalmology -- Jacques Guillemeau -- Walter Baily -- William Briggs -- Sir Isaac Newton -- Sir William Read -- John Taylor -- First ophthalmologists -- Peter Kennedy -- William Porterfield -- James Ware -- John Cunningham Saunders -- Sir William Adams -- Georg Joseph Beer -- Sebastien Guillie -- William Mackenzie -- Frans Cornelis Donders -- General surgeon discovers the eye -- Antonio Scarpa -- John Vetch -- Benjamin Travers -- George James Guthrie -- Sir William Lawrence.
Ophthalmology comes to the new world -- Sprier Littell -- John H. Dix, Alfred C. Post -- Hermann Jakob Knapp -- Henry Willard Williams -- Elucidation of the anatomy and pathology of the eye -- James Wardrop -- John Dalrymple -- Sir William Bowman -- Adolf Alt -- John Herbert Parsons, E. Treacher Collins -- Jonas Friedenwald -- Evolution of modern ophthalmology -- Herman von Helmholtz -- Albrecht von Graefe -- Ferdinand Ritter von Arlt -- Ernst Fuchs.

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  • 0721645127