Divided into five sections, this book considers the history of ideas in ophthalmology and visual sciences; biographies of researchers in ophthalmology; the history of academic institutions involved in ophthalmology; ophthalmology in antiquity; and oral history in ophthalmology.
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The history of stereoscopy.- Helmholtz, the first reformer of ophthalmology.- Christoph Scheiner’s eye studies.- Jules Janssen (1824–1907): From ophthalmology to astronomy.- John Cunningham Saunders (1773–1810): His contribution to the surgery of congenital cataracts.- Thomas Hall Shastid (1866–1947): America’s forgotten historian of ophthalmology.- William R. Wilde (1815–1876) in Vienna.- Noelle Chome-Bercioux (1898–1990), Jules Gonin’s public relations’ officer.- Professor Gama Pinto and the beginning of Portuguese ophthalmology.- The first Danish Chairs of Ophthalmology.- Ophthalmology in Europe in the days of the French Revolution.- The present status of the Hirschberg Library.- A case of eye disease (Lippitudo) on the Roman frontier in Britain.- Some Byzantine chroniclers and historians on ophthalmological topics.- The penalty of blinding during Byzantine times.- Miraculous ophthalmological therapies in Byzantium.- The development of ophthalmology in the former German Democratic Republic after 1945.
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ISBN
9780792320531
Publisert
1993-02-28
Utgiver
Vendor
Springer
Høyde
240 mm
Bredde
160 mm
Aldersnivå
Research, UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

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