Julius Hirschberg Explained

Julius Hirschberg (18 September 1843  - 17 February 1925) was a German ophthalmologist and medical historian. He was of Jewish ancestry.[1] [2]

In 1875, Hirschberg coined the term "campimetry" for the measurement of the visual field on a flat surface (tangent screen test) [3] and in 1879 he became the first to use an electromagnet to remove metallic foreign bodies from the eye.[4] In 1886, he developed the Hirschberg test for measuring strabismus.[4] His series Geschichte der Augenheilkunde (History of Ophthalmology), nine volumes written from 1899 to 1917, is considered by some to be one of his greatest achievements.[5]

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Notes and References

  1. [Bernard Lewis]
  2. Geoffrey Cocks, Treating Mind and Body: Essays in the History of Science, Professions, and Society Under Extreme Conditions, Transaction Publishers (1998), p. 175
  3. http://webeye.ophth.uiowa.edu/ips/PerimetryHistory/4-tangentscreen.htm The age of isopter perimetry
  4. http://www.ophthalmologytimes.com/ophthalmologytimes/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=129362&pageID=1 Manage Account - Modern Medicine
  5. Julius Hirschberg (1843-1925), ophthalmologist and medical historian (Author's transl) . 789990 . 1976 . Koelbing . H. M. . Klinische Monatsblatter Fur Augenheilkunde . 168 . 1 . 103–108 .