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Book SynopsisOphthalmology in Art and Literature.- Four legends about Hippocrates. Collected by Mr. Zarakas of the village Pili Cos.- Eye votives in Greek antiquity.- Leonardo and the eye.- Ophthalmological lore in the Corpus Hippocraticum.- The presentation of the eye in African and Oceanian art.- Ophthalmological Instruments.- The Utrecht Ophthalmic Hospital and the development of tonometry in the 19th century.- The Utrecht Ophthalmic Hospital and the development of the ophthalmoscope.- Biographies of famous Ophthalmologists.- The foundation of experimental ophthalmology by Theodor Leber.- Georg Joseph Beer: A review of his life and contributions.- The first German textbook of ophthalmology Augendienst by G. Bartisch, 1583.- The professors of ophthalmology at the University of Leipzig in the first half of the 20th century.- Topics in Ophthalmic Surgery.- Eye injuries by the Byzantine writer Aetios Amidinos.- The lacrimal surgery of Petrus Camper and his contemporaries.- History of Institutions and Disciplines.- The French Egyptian campaign and its effects on ophthalmology.- The appointment of Johan Widmark to the first chair in ophthalmology in Stockholm 1891.- A historical outline of Greek ophthalmology from the Hellenistic period up to the establishment of the first universities.- History of the Japanese Ophthalmological Society.- The general development of Chinese ophthalmology from its beginnings to the 18th century.
Table of ContentsOphthalmology in Art and Literature.- Four legends about Hippocrates. Collected by Mr. Zarakas of the village Pili — Cos.- Eye votives in Greek antiquity.- Leonardo and the eye.- Ophthalmological lore in the Corpus Hippocraticum.- The presentation of the eye in African and Oceanian art.- Ophthalmological Instruments.- The Utrecht Ophthalmic Hospital and the development of tonometry in the 19th century.- The Utrecht Ophthalmic Hospital and the development of the ophthalmoscope.- Biographies of famous Ophthalmologists.- The foundation of experimental ophthalmology by Theodor Leber.- Georg Joseph Beer: A review of his life and contributions.- The first German textbook of ophthalmology “Augendienst” by G. Bartisch, 1583.- The professors of ophthalmology at the University of Leipzig in the first half of the 20th century.- Topics in Ophthalmic Surgery.- “Eye injuries” by the Byzantine writer Aetios Amidinos.- The lacrimal surgery of Petrus Camper and his contemporaries.- History of Institutions and Disciplines.- The French Egyptian campaign and its effects on ophthalmology.- The appointment of Johan Widmark to the first chair in ophthalmology in Stockholm 1891.- A historical outline of Greek ophthalmology from the Hellenistic period up to the establishment of the first universities.- History of the Japanese Ophthalmological Society.- The general development of Chinese ophthalmology from its beginnings to the 18th century.
