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The First Cataract Surgeons in the British Isles.
Am J Ophthalmol
October 2021
Departments of Ophthalmology, Human and Molecular Genetics, and Pediatrics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA.
Purpose: To describe the entry of cataract surgery into the British Isles.
Methods: Handbills, books, and other historical sources were reviewed to determine when cataract surgery was first performed in the region.
Results: Roman artifacts suggest that couching was performed in the British Isles in antiquity.
A Family of Early English Oculists (1600-1751), With a Reappraisal of John Thomas Woolhouse (1664-1733/1734).
Ophthalmol Eye Dis
September 2017
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, Naples, FL, USA.
Introduction: John Thomas Woolhouse (1666-1733/1734), who practiced in Paris, was part of a family with 5 generations of English oculists. Some historians have derided him as a "charlatan" and have criticized him for adhering to the old notion that a cataract was a membrane anterior to the lens.
Methods: We reviewed treatises and digital records related to Woolhouse and his family and the handwritten notes of his 1721 lecture series at the Royal Society of Medicine.
[Development of ophthalmology in Bosnia and Herzegovina].
Med Arh
November 2008
Katedra za Porodicnu medicinu, Medicinski fakultet Univerziteta u Sarajevu.
Organized health services in Bosnia and Herzegovina started with the foundation of several vakuf hospitals (in Sarajevo, Tuzla, Banja Luka, Mostar and Travnik) financed by the fund of the Gazi Husrev-beg vakuf. In these hospitals services was provided by the qualified health professionals, mainly educated at the schools of medicine in Turkey, Italy, Austria, Hungary, Switzerland and other countries. Majority of them worked as civil and military physicians in the above mentioned vakuf hospitals, but also in the Turkey army hospitals situated in the all larger settlements in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF[Homage to Doctor Theodore Vetter (1916-2004). President of the French Society of the History of Medicine from 1976 to 1978].
Hist Sci Med
January 2008
Institut d'Anatomie Normale (EA 3428), Faculté de Médecine (ULP), F-67085 Strasbourg.
Théodore Vetter (Strasbourg, 1916, June 19th - 2004, July 8th) was qualified as a medical doctor in medicine in 1948 in Strasbourg, and then followed complementary courses in medical biology in Paris. He realized most of his career as an adviser for medical research in pharmaceutical industry. He presented an early talent for drawing and graphic arts, encouraged by Georges Ritleng (1875-1972), headmaster of the School of decorative arts in Strasbourg.
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