History of Ophthalmology

• Cogan and Verhoeff: A friendship of genius.- Life events and visual symptoms of Adolf Hitler (With personal anecdotes).- The blindness of John Milton.- Neurology of the Ocular Muscles: emerge of a neuro-ophthalmologist A personal history and tribute to David Cogan.- William Thomson and Joseph Janvier Wood-ward.- William Fisher Norris: A Philadelphia ophthal-mologist.- M.D., D. Ophth..- Pope John XXI, ophthalmologist.- Did George McClellan commit malpractice?.- A brief biography of his life and final days.- Toichiro Kuwabara on Dave Cogan An interview.- The origins of the National Eye Institute 1933–1968 The Fifth Charles B. Snyder Lecture.- A history of low vision and blind rehabilitation in the United States.- The tarsectomy operation of A.P.L. Gillet de Grandmont and its periodic rediscovery (1837–1894).- Pioneers in the history of orbital decompression for Graves’ ophthalmopathy R.U. Kroenlein (1847–1910), O. Hirsch (1877–1965) and H.C. Naffziger (1884–1961).- Brian wars: Passion and conflict in the localization of vision in the brain.- Jaeger, About Glaucoma.- Optical uses of fans.

'I do recommend not only this volume but earlier and future volumes as well.' Acta Ophthalmologica Scandinavica (1996)