Past Presentations of the
COGAN OPHTHALMIC HISTORY SOCIETY
1988-2023
Titles marked with a P* are available in the Proceedings volume for the year of presentation. Contact Jenny Benjamin, at the Truhlsen-Marmor Museum of the Eye (jbenjamin@aao.org), for further information.
Papers noted as being “Published as…” may not be identical to the Cogan Society presentation or the content in the Proceedings volumes.
Afshari, Natalie
2006 Forefathers of Contemporary Refractive Surgery
Albert, Daniel M.
1988 Will the First American Ophthalmologist Please Stand Up
1989 John Jeffries’ Lectures in Ophthalmology
1990 Hippocrates on Ophthalmology
1991 Newton, Voltaire, and God
1992 The Discovery of the Ophthalmoscope (Snyder lecture)
1993 Peter deGravers: Oculist to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1994 Cogan and Verhoeff: A Friendship of Genius
1999 A Brief History of Medical Ethics for the Ophthalmologist
2002 Rembrandt’s “The Eye Operation”
2005 Little Lord Fauntleroy’s Father: Swan Moses Burnett P*. Published as: Albert DM, Atzen, SL.
Swan M. Burnett, MD, PhD: The Forgotten Father of Little Lord Fauntleroy. Arch Ophthalmic 2009;
127:1664-71. PMID 20008723
2009 From a Country Doctor’s Casebooks: Treatment of Eye Disease in Rural Wisconsin, 1841-1852
2012 Hjalmar August Schiotz: His Life and Recently Rediscovered Ophthalmoscope
2017 Burton Chance: An Ophthalmic Historian and Witness to 19th and 20th Century
Ophthalmology
2019 Clyde Keeler and the Dark Side of Genetics. Published as: Albert DM. Clyde E. Keeler: The
rodless mouse and the early days of retinal genetic research. Ophthalmology Retina 2019; 3:716-23
PMID 31235311
Alon, Susan
1990 For the Concupiscence of Eyes
Alper, Melvin (deceased)
1991 Sir Godfrey Hounsfield and the C.T. Scanner
1993 The Early History of Dysthyroid Ophthalmopathy (Graves, Perry, and Von Basedow)
1994 History of Orbital Decompression for Graves’ Ophthalmopathy
1995 Ophthalmologists and the American College of Surgeons
1997 Was Matthew Brady Blind?
1998 Three Pioneers in the Early History of Neuro-Radiology (Snyder lecture)
2002 Reminiscences of My Three Professors: Cogan, Adler, and Scheie
Amalric, Pierre (deceased, 1999)
1996 Medical Problems Depicted by Toulouse Lautrec
1998 The Two Galezowski’s, Father and Son: An Ophthalmologic Tradition
(read by J.G. Ravin)
Apple, David J. (deceased, 2011)
2002 A Tour Through Sir Harold Ridley’s Attic: Some Revisions of Ophthalmic History
2005 Spitfires and Hurricanes
2006 Sir Harold Ridley’s Almost-Forgotten Protégée
2007 Ocular pathology as a Freestanding Subspecialty: Rise and Fall
2008 History of the International Intraocular Lens Club (IIC)
2010 Professor Soemmerring and His Magic Ring
Arch, Jennifer
2018 Eyesight, Vision, Love, and War in Three Medieval and Early Modern Literary Works P*
2019 Milton's Blindness P*
Barbara J. Arnold
2023 Ophthalmia Neonatorum 19th Century – A Chronicle of America’s First Woman Doctor from
Losing her Eye with this Hospital Acquired infection to Her Founding The Woman’s Medical College
in 1868 P*
Asbury, Taylor
1998 The History of Ophthalmology in Cincinnati (1827-1940)
Bacal, Darron A
2006 Harry S. Truman - The Influence of Hyperopia and Spectacles on the Making of a President
2008 The Eye Injury That Changed Western Civilization
Barbour, Monique
2024 The Pioneering Contributions of 21st Century Black Women in Ophthalmology (with Bria George)
Bartley, George
1994 The Blindness of John Milton
1996 Ophthalmic Eponyms from the Mayo Clinic
1998 Four Eyes on the Diamond: The First Bespectacled Players in Professional Baseball
2021 The Unfinished History of Professionalism (2022 Snyder lecture)
Baum, Jules
1999 Helena Fedukowicz: Pioneer Educator in Ocular Bacteriology
Bermudez, Dennis
2018 The Monocular Duke of Urbino (with Stephen G. Schwartz, Pamela S. Chavis, F. Khan, and
Christopher T. Leffler ) P* Published as: Published as: Schwartz SG, Leffler CT, Chavis PS, Khan F,
Bermudez D, Flynn HW. The monocular Duke of Urbino. Ophthalmology and Eye Diseases
2016;8(Suppl 1):15-19. PMID: 27980441
2019 Famous Monocular Warriors (with Stephen Schwartz, Christopher T. Leffler and Andrzej
Grzybowski) P* Published as: Schwartz SG, Leffler CT, Grzybowski A, Bermudez D. Famous
monocular warriors. Historia Ophthalmologica Internationalis 2018;2:161-16
2024 Cystoid Macular Edema: The History of Its Diagnosis and Treatment (with Jaime D. Martinez,
Juan Carlos Navia, Christopher T. Leffler, Harry W. Flynn Jr, and Stephen G Schwartz)
Bhatti, M. Tariq
2023 Theodor Leber: A Man Ahead of His Time and the Story of Gene Therapy for His Optic
Neuropathy
2024 The Genesis and Rise of the Basic and Clinical Science Course (BCSC): A Unicorn Among Medical
Textbooks
Biousse, Valerie
2005 Homonymous Hemianopsia: The Localizing Value of Incongruity (with Steven A. Newman) P*
Bisno, David
1994 President Hopkin’s Dilemma: The Dartmouth Eye Institute
2002 Edwardian Snowblindness: Ophthalmic Travails in the Arctic and Antarctic
2003 The Genius of Edmond Halley and the Transit of Venus
2005 Now You See it, Now You Don’t P*
2007 Ophthalmology in Fin-de-Sièle Vienna
2009 The Evolutionist, Three Ophthalmologists, and the Prime Minister
2014 Ties That Bind: Ophthalmic History and Classical Music, Featuring “The Eye Glasses Duet”
Blanchard, Donald
1992 Bartisch’s Herbal Remedies
1993 Jaeger, About Glaucoma
1994 Pope John XXI, Ophthalmologist
1995 From Ebers to Jackson
1996 Vogtherr’s Büchlin
1999 George Handel and His Blindness
2000 Bartisch on Theriac
2004 Robert Louis Stevenson: Optical Engineer
2007 The Ophthalmology of Hieronymus Brunschwig (Snyder Lecture)
2012 Emily Dickinson’s Consultation with Henry Willard Williams, MD
2013 W.F. Mittendorf and His Dot
2016 Henry Gray's (Eye) Anatomy
2017 Henry Gray's (Retinal) Anatomy The First 50 Years (1858-1908)
2019 Dr. Bacteria, or Dr. Santiago Ramon y Cajal P*
Blodi, Barbara
1997 Karl Safar of Vienna: Pioneering Retinal Surgeon
2015 Life's Lessons Learned: Frederick Blodi, M.D. at the Columbia University Harkness Eye
Institute (with Christopher Blodi)
Blodi, Christopher F.
2010 The Missing Link: Paul Sullivan, MD and the History of Intraocular SF6. Published as: Blodi
CF. Paul Sullivan: Catalyst in the History and Use of Intraocular Sulfur Hexafluoride. Ophthalmic
Surg Lasers Imaging Retina 2015; 46:141-5. PMID 25559529
2011 Arlt Orders His Ophthalmoscope: A Study in Provenance. Published as: Blodi CF. Arlt Orders
His Ophthalmoscope: A Study in Provenance. Hist Ophthal Intern 2020; 2:362-72
2012 Paul A. Cibis. Pioneer of Modern Vitreo-retinal Surgery. Part 2, Contributions to Vitreous
Surgery. P* Published as: Feibel, RM, Blodi CF. Paul A. Cibis, MD: A Pioneer of Modern
Vitreoretinal Surgery. JAMA Ophthalmol 2013; 131: 1077-82. PMID 23680812
2014 David Kasner, MD, and the Road to Pars Plana Vitrectomy. Published as: Blodi CF. David
Kasner, MD, and the Road to Pars Plane Vitrectomy. Ophthalmol Eye Dis 2016; 8(Suppl 1):1-4.
PMID 27660504
2015 Life's Lessons Learned: Frederick Blodi,M.D. at Columbia University Harkness Eye Institute (with
Barbara Blodi)
2017 Adolf Hitler's Vitreous Hemorrhages...and Other Visual Disorders
2018 "Power to the Blind": The Kenneth Jernigan Story P*
2022 The Dynamic History of the Ophthalmology Residency Matching Program. Published as: Blodi
CF, Krueger RR. The Dynamic History of the Ophthalmology Residency Matching Program. J Acad
Ophthalmol 2022; 14:e31-e37. PMID 37388471; PMCID 9928010
2023 The Whole Eye Transplant of 1969: The Whole Story and Insights into Experimental Surgery
Then and Now (Snyder Lecture) P*. Published as: Blodi CF. Novel Insights Into the 1969 Whole-
Transplant: Medical Ethics and Evolving Safety Mechanisms. Am J Ophthalmol 2022;
238:120-7. PMID 35038417
Blodi, Frederick (deceased, 1996)
1988 Blindness in Mythology and Religion
1990 Ophthalmologists Suffering from Glaucoma
1991 Some Famous Persons with Visual Problems (Snyder lecture)
Bogdan, A.J.
2005 L. Webster Fox
Bohigian, George M.
1997 The Concept of the Evil Eye and Its Influence on Ophthalmology, Medicine, and Social Behavior P*
2000 Albert Einstein: His Life and Contributions to the Development of Lasers P*
2003 Symbols Deciphered P*
2005 Honey: The Pharaoh’s Magic Eye Potion P*
2006 Standardization of Visual Acuity Testing in Antiquity (Before Donders, Jaeger and Snellen) P*
2007 “He Sees Alcor, but not the Full Moon”: The Arabian Eye Test Using Stars P*
2008 Ophthalmic History-New Techniques for Looking at the Past P*
2009 Bernard Becker “In His Own Words”-Part I “The Formative Years” P*
2010 Bernard Becker “In His Own Words” Part II – “The Academic Years” P*
2012 To Trick the Eye: A Short History of a Famous Magical Optical Illusion: The Sphinx Head P*
2013 The Inaugural Meeting of the Cogan Ophthalmic History Society in 1988 P*
2014 Our Ophthalmic Heritage: Superstitions, Symbols, and Magic (Snyder lecture) P*
2015 Stevens-Johnson Syndrome: It's Discovery and Clinical Description P*
2016 History and Folklore of Plant-Based Ophthalmic Medications P*
2017 Francis I. Proctor MD: His Life and His Legacy. P* Published as: Bohigian GM, Feibel RM.
Francis I. Proctor, MD and his Wife Elizabeth C. Proctor: Their Lives and Legacy. Journal of
Medical Biography 2018; DOI: 10.1177/0967772017727478 PMID 29372652
2018 The Eye in Motion Pictures: An Illustrated History P*
2019 The Caduceus vs. Staff of Aesculapius - One Snake or Two? P* Published as: Bohigian G. The
Caduceus vs. Staff of Aesculapius — One Snake or Two? Missouri Medicine 2019; 116:476-7 PMID
31911724
Braich, Puneet
2015 The First Cataract Surgeons in Anglo-America P* (with Christopher T. Leffler, Stephen G.
Schwartz and Andrzej Grzybowski) Published as: Leffler CT, Schwartz SG, Grzybowski A, Braich
PS. The first cataract surgeons in Anglo-America. Survey of Ophthalmology 2015; 60:86-92. PMID
25444521
Brander, Elisabeth
2016 Historical Aspects of the Bernard Becker Collection in Ophthalmology and Optics
Brandt, James
2023 Orbis International at 40 - A Brief History
Brosco, Jeffrey
2024 Social Authority of Modern Medicine
Brown, Harry S.
2014 Founding of Surgical Eye Expeditions (SEE) International
Bullock, John D.
1990 St. Paul was Struck by Lightning
1992 Blindness in Literature: A Theme Spanning Three Millennia
1993 Rene Blondlot and His Vision Enhancing Rays (with Shane T. Russell)
1996 Was Dom Perignon Really Blind? (with Jennifer Wang and Gretchen H. Bullock)
1998 Mr. H.B. Stallard and “Chariots of Fire”
2000 The Blind Leading the Blind: The Story of Louis Braille
2006 Ophthalmology and the History of Penicillin: A Tale of Three Cities
2007 The Renu® Related Fusarium Keratitis Outbreak of 2005-2006: What Would the Reverend
Henry Whitehead and Doctor John Snow Have Done?
2009 Why Was Carlota Valdivia Blind?
2015 Ophthalmology and the Nobel Prize
2018 Sir William Osler -- A Wannabe Ophthalmologist
2019 Leonhard Euler: The Mysterious Oculopathy of a Mathematical Genius P* (with Ronald E.
Warwar and H. Bradford Hawley)
2021 Dr. David W. Sime: The World’s Fastest Human
2024 William Shakespeare: My Co-author, My Co-lecturer, and My Critic
Cameron, J. Douglas
2012 The Final Days of the Armed Services of Pathology (AFIP)
Carmona-Cornet, Anna Maria
2022 The Cataract Surgery of Empress Eugenie (1826-1920) (with Tracy Ravin, James Ravin, and
Guillermo Simon Castellvi)
Caruso, Rafael
1991 Astronomy and Ophthalmology: Kepler et al.
1993 Trichromatism or Color Opponent Mechanisms? A Nineteenth Century Controversy
Castellvi, Guillermo Simon
The Cataract Surgery of Empress Eugenie (1826-1920) (with Tracy Ravin, James Ravin, and Anna
Maria Carmona-Cornet)
Celiker, Pelin
2024 The Origins and Evolution of Ptosis Repair (poster)
Chan, Chi-Chao
2008 Eugene Chan: Pioneer of Modern Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences in China
2009 Couching for Cataract in China. Published as: Chan CC. Couching for cataract in China. Survey of
Ophthalmology 2010; 55:393-8. PMID 20451942
2010 The First Western-Style Hospital in China (1835 – Present)
2012 Ten Chairmen of the Ophthalmology Department at Peking Union Medical College (PUMC)
2015 Tianrong Miao and the First School of Ophthalmology and Optometry in China
2017 Dr. Lien-Teh Wu and People's Hospital, the First Western Hospital Built by Chinese
Government (with Xiaoguang Cao, and Chunying Li)
Chavis, Pamela S.
2008 A View of the History of Ophthalmology in Saudi Arabia, 1983-2008
2009 Tuberculosis and Uveitis in the Life of Stonewall Jackson
2010 Stonewall Jackson, Uveitis and Tuberculosis
2011 Traditional Cosmetic and Medicinal Use of Kohl and Henna: Their Efficacy v. Side Effects
2016 Symbolism of the Eye in the Ancient World (with James Farmer, Ph.D.)
2018 The Monocular Duke of Urbino (with Stephen G. Schwartz, Christopher T. Leffler, F. Khan and
D. Bermudez) P* Published as: Schwartz SG, Leffler CT, Chavis PS, Khan F, Bermudez D, Flynn
HW. The monocular Duke of Urbino. Ophthalmology and Eye Diseases 2016;8(Suppl 1):15-19
PMID 27980441
Chelnick, Judy
1989 Not Just a Pretty Face: Collecting and Exhibiting at the Smithsonian Institution
Chhetri, Chandra
2021 Feynman's Fascination with Vision and the Visual Arts
Chu, Fred
1988 Harvey Howard
1990 Edmund Cowdry - A Friend of Harvey Howard
Cibis, Gerhard
2018 Heinrich Harms 1908-2003
Cogan, David (deceased)
1988 Dr. Roentgen, The Williams Brothers, and Private John Gretzer
1989 H. Mui and His Fibers
1990 John Taylor, M.D. (with Comments on Bach and Handel)
1991 Who is Mr. Rumbold
1992 Some Music Makers and Ophthalmology
1993 Edward Reynolds: Fame without Significant Publications
1994 Life Events and Visual Symptoms of Adolph Hitler
Cohen, Sophie
2022 Dr. Max Kaplan: The Merging of Pediatrics and Ophthalmology (with Robert Enzenauer)
Colenbrander, August
2001 Visual Acuity Measurement in a Historical Perspective
Collins, Louise
2017 The Lucien Howe Library of Ophthalmology Collection
2022 “Ain’t We Having a Time”: The Travel Journals of Dr. David Glendenning Cogan
Couser, Natario L.
2021 Cheselden’s 1728 Report of Eye Surgery in the Congenitally Blind: New Information (with
Christopher T. Leffler, Stephen G. Schwartz, and Abdul-Rahman Salman)
Cronenwett, Susan
1988 Oral Histories: Bringing Life to a Museum Collection
1989 Ophthalmology: A Single Strand in the Fabric of History
Culbertson, William
2024 The Semmelweis Reflex in Ophthalmology: When You’re Probably on the Right Track!
Currie, Benjamin D.
2013 Early American Strabismus Surgery: 1840-1846. Part 2
Custer, Philip
2024 The History of Entropion (with Natalie Morales)
2024 The Influence of Trachoma on the Establishment of Modern Ophthalmology – a “Worldwind” tour (with Natalie Morales)
Davenport, Byrd
2013 Evolution and Impact of Eye and Vision Terms in Written English, with Christopher Leffler,
Stephen Schwartz, Russell Stackhouse and Karli Spetzler. Published as: Leffler CT, Schwartz SG,
Stackhouse R, Davenport B, Spetzler K. Evolution and impact of eye and vision terms in written
English. JAMA Ophthalmology 2013; 131:1625-31. PMID 24337558
Davis, Audrey
1988 The Ophthalmological Collections of the National Museum of American History
Deegan, Michael
2019 From Trinity to Today - The Evolution of Military Head and Neck Trauma Teams P* (with Robert
Enzenauer)
de Jong, Paulus T. V.
2015 The Earliest Clinical and Histopathological Descriptions of the Aging Macular
Disorder (AMD)
2021 The Quest for Snellen’s Dependable Optotypes (with Jan E.E.Keunen)
2024 Robert Machemer. From a Difficult Childhood to High Excellence
Dohlman, Claes
1999 Pellier de Quengsy and His Keratoprosthesis
Drews, Robert
2004 Green Cataract
2006 The Debt of the AOS to the Heidelberg Ophthalmological Society: Historical Speculation
2007 IVY and the Early History of Ophthalmic EMR
2010 A History of the First 50 Years of the Department of Ophthalmology at Saint Louis University,
1903-1953. (Including Selected Highlights from the Nineteenth Century)
2011 The St. Louis Society for the Blind and Visually Impaired: 100 Years of Help
Eliasoph, Ira
1998 Emil Gruening
1999 Charles H. May
2000 Minsky: A Model Ophthalmologist
2001 Irving H. Leopold
2002 Ophthalmology at Mt. Sinai Hospital: A Brief History
2003 Unheralded and Prophetic Percy Fridenberg
2005 The Man Behind the Forceps — N. Bishop Harman and a Controversial Ophthalmologist P*
2007 Silas Weir Mitchell and Ophthalmology
2008 Kritzer, Kestenbaum, and Koller, Something About Each
2009 Emanuel Krimsky (1898-1992), A Prism, and a Full Spectrum Life
2010 Apologia Pro Vita Ophthalmologica; Ophthalmology and Observation: A Life” (Snyder lecture)
2011 Charles H. Beard, his encyclopedic surgical text and Chicago Life and Ophthalmology
2012 Western Ophthalmologists and the PUMC (Peking Union Medical College) Connection
2013 Part 1: 1891 Thoughts on Cataract Surgery. Part 2: Father and Son Minsky
2014 (1) Charles J. Snyder (1914-1996): Ex Libris Lux; (2) The Illuminator
2015 Not To Be Forgotten - Thomas Hall Shastid, M.D. (1866 - 1947)
2017 Alvin Allace Hubbell (1846-1911) Our Predecessor in History
2018 Vision Doctors' Vision (An Illustrated Narrative or Graphic Tale) P*
2019 An Obscure Eye Surgeon and a Very Famous Son [poster]
2019 Charles Joe Snyder: Architect of Our Ophthalmic Heritage [poster] (with Pamela C. Sieving)
Ellis, Eydie Miller
2022 Overcoming a History of Discrimination in the Medical Training Pipeline and Identifying the
Leadership of African American Ophthalmologists in Addressing Health Care Disparities (with
Mildred M.G. Olivier)
Enoch, Jay M.
1997 Early Lenses Found with Objects Viewed Through Them
1999 Fine Lenses from the Old Kingdom of Egypt (ca. 4500 Years Ago!): Unique Optical Properties
and Issues Relating to These Lenses
2000 The Future of Ophthalmoscopy: An Example, Adaptive Optics to Provide Micro-
Ophthalmoscopy
2001 Ancient Lenses and Visual Illusion Measured at the Louvre, Paris. I. Reserve eye
2002 Ancient Egyptian Lenses at the Louvre: II The Statue of “Le Scribe Accroupi”
2003 Use of Concave Mirrors as Visual Corrections and Magnifying Devices Preceded Spectacle
Corrections
2004 History of Mirrors Dating Back ca. 8000 Years Before the Present (BP)
2005 Filling in Some of the Gaps: The World’s Oldest Mirrors II P*
2006 The New Discovery of a Rare Ancient Egyptian Lens
2007 Hans Goldmann’s Golden Years in St. Louis: Daily Research Bench Rounds with the Master
2008 The First Known Artificial Eye Unearthed at “The Burnt City” in Iran
2009 “A Mesolithic (Middle Stone Age!) Spanish Artificial Eye” Please Realize This Technology is
About 7000 Years Old!
2010 “A Search for the Earliest Representation(s) of Light-Rays.”
2011 “Testifying Before the U.S. Congress in Behalf of the National Eye Institute, N.I.H., during the
Early Years of Its Existence.”
2012 William Cain Ruffin, MD (and Some History of the Ruffin Family as It Pertains to the American
Civil War)
Enzenauer, Robert W.
2014 E.C. Ellett, MD – Physician, Citizen, and Soldier
2015 Eye Surgeons Who Became Generals and Admirals
2019 From Trinity to Today - The Evolution of Military Head and Neck Trauma Teams P* (with Michael
Deegan)
2019 Novels, Storytelling and the Eye: Creative Writing Viewed Through the Ophthalmologist’s Lens P*
(with Veronica Lucian)
2022 Dr. Max Kaplan: The Merging of Pediatrics and Ophthalmology (with Sophie Cohen)
2022 Historical Perspectives on Visual Hysteria (with Justus Gabriel)
2022 Eye Surgeons Who Became Generals and Admirals: Spencer C. Dickerson (1871-1948) (with Leah
Greenfield)
2023 An Overview of Eye Surgeons Knighted by the British Monarch (with Daniel Whitfield)
Feibel, Robert M.
2009 Simon Pollak, M.D. P* Published as: Feibel, RM. Simon Pollak, MD. Gateway: The Magazine
of the Missouri Historical Society. 2013;33:63-71
2010 Fred Loe, MD. P* Published as: Fred Loe, MD, and the History of Trachoma. Archives of
Ophthalmology 2011; 129:503-8. PMID 21482877
2011 An Ophthalmologist Afield: Vincent (Censu) Tabone, A President of Malta. P* Published as:
Vincent (Censu) Tabone, an Ophthalmologist and a President of the Republic of Malta. Archives of
Ophthalmology 2012; 130:373-7. PMID 22411666
2012 Paul A. Cibis, Pioneer of Modern Vitreo-retinal Surgery, Part I, Biography. P* Published as: Paul
A. Cibis, MD: A Pioneer of Modern Vitreoretinal Surgery. With C.F. Blodi. JAMA Ophthalmology
2013; 131-1077-82. PMID 23680812
2013 Early American Strabismus Surgery: 1840-1846. Part I. P* Published as: Early American
Strabismus Surgery. With B.D. Currie. Strabismus 2015; 23:182-90. PMID 26669424
2014 Herbert Herbert: His Corneal Pits and Scleral Slits. P* Published as: Herbert Herbert: His
Corneal Pits and Scleral Slits. Ophthalmology 2014; 121:1142-8. PMID 24424250
2015 Sympathectomy for Glaucoma: Its Rise and Fall (1898 - 1910). P* Published as: Sympathectomy
for Glaucoma: Its Rise and Fall (1898-1910). Survey of Ophthalmology 2015; 60:500-7. PMID
25907524
2016 James Moores Ball: St. Louis Ophthalmologist, Medical Historian, and Bibliophile. P* Published
as: James Moores Ball: Ophthalmologist, Medical Historian, Bibliophile. Journal of Medical
Biography 2016; 24:301-8. PMID 27316691
2017 Mortimer Frank, Johann Ludwig Choulant, and the History of Anatomical Illustration. P*
Published as: Feibel RM. Mortimer Frank, Johann Ludwig Choulant, and the History of
Anatomical Illustration. Journal of Medical Biography 2018; 967772017708648.
PMID 29372653
2018 Cuban Epidemic Optic Neuropathy (1991-1993) and José Saramago's Novel Blindness (1995)
(Snyder Lecture). P* Published as: Feibel RM, Arch J. Cuban epidemic optic neuropathy (1991-
1993) and José Saramago's novel Blindness (1995). American Journal of Ophthalmology
2018;193:xix-xxvii P* PMID 29906432
2018 Quicklime as an Ocular Chemical Weapon: Examples in Ancient and Medieval Warfare (with
Richard Schroeder) P*
2019 William Wallace (1860-1940): British Ophthalmologist and Classical Music Composer.
Published as: William Wallace (1860-1940): British ophthalmologist and classical music
composer. Journal of Medical Biography 2019; 28:90-5 doi: 10.1177/0967772019861818. P* PMID 31475883
2021 Henry R. Viets, MD, and the History of Myasthenia Gravis. Published as: Feibel RM. Henry R.
Viets, MD, and the History of Myasthenia Gravis. Neurology 2021; 96:322-6. PMID 33219137
Ferry, Andrew (deceased, 2018)
1988 The Blow Family of Virginia, Their Slave “Sam,” and Dr. T. L. Stephens’ Chemical Eye Salve
1989 Dr. William O Coffee and His Absorption Cure for Cataract
1990 Optical/Ophthalmological/Optometric Advertising Covers
1991 The New York Ophthalmological Society
1992 Ophthalmology and Vanity Fair
1993 Dr. Isaac Thompson and His Celebrated Eye Water (Snyder lecture)
1994 Dr. James Bolton of Richmond: A Pioneer in Strabismus Surgery
1995 Professor Charles Tyrrell and His Ideal Sight Restorer
1996 “Professor” William C. Wilson and his Actina Pocket Battery for Curing Ocular Diseases
1997 The 100th Anniversary of the Murine Eye Remedy Co.
1998 Carl Koller and the Introduction of Local Anesthesia
2000 “Dr.” John R. Dickey’s Old Reliable Eye Water, and Baird Advertising Clocks
2002 The Badianus Manuscript
2004 Dr. Ball and his Patent Eye Cups: an Early Proponent of Reshaping the Cornea for Correction of
Refractive
2011 Depictions of Ophthalmologists on Postage Stamps
Festa, Susan
1990 In Retrospect: Presidential Addresses During the Early Years in AAOO
Finger, Stanley
2003 Benjamin Franklin and the Treatment of Stroke
Fishman, Gerald A.
1994 Alex E. Krill: Life and Final Days
1995 Anne Sullivan: Her Life and Blindness
1996 Friedrich Best: More than Just the Macula
1998 Jan Evangelista Purkyne (Purkinje), Czech Scientist and Patriot
2002 When your Eyes Are a Wet Nose: The Evolution of the Use of Guide Dogs
2005 Edgar Derry Tillyer: The Man and His Career P*
2008 John Dalton: Though in Error, He Still Impacted Upon our Understanding of Color Deficiencies
2010 Historical Evolution in Our Understanding of Stargardt Macular Dystrophy
2012 An Historical Perspective for the Early Treatment of Night Blindness and the Use of Dubious
and Unproven Treatment Strategies for Patients with Retinitis Pigmentosa (Snyder Lecture)
2015 James Elzar Lebensohn: A Universal Man Worthy of Being Remembered
2017 The Life and Times of Jan Evangelista Purkinje: Scientist and Czech Patriot (with Marlene
Fishman)
2019 The Genius of Art Tatum, a Blind Black Pianist: His Impact on The Development of Jazz P* (with
Marlene Fishman)
Fishman, Marlene
2017 The Life and Times of Jan Evangelista Purkinje: Scientist and Czech Patriot (with Gerald
Fishman)
2019 The Genius of Art Tatum, a Blind Black Pianist: His Impact on The Development of Jazz P* (with
Gerald Fishman)
Fishman, Ronald S. (deceased, 2022)
1988 Descartes, Retinal Projection and the Soul
1989 A Smoother Pebble, A Prettier Shell: Isaac Newton and the Chiasm
1990 A Surgeon without Hesitation and without Conscience
1991 A Leap of the Imagination: Leonardo and Kepler
1992 Astride the World as a Colossus: Galen on Vision
1993 The Lunatic Asylum Experiments: David Ferrier and the Cerebral Cortex
1994 Brain Wars: Conflict and Passion in the Localization of Vision in the Cortex
1995 Retina as Rosetta Stone: Ramon y Cajal and the Neuron Doctrine
1996 Gordon Holmes, the Cortical Retina and the Wounds of War (Snyder Lecture)
1997 Man’s Place in Nature and the Great Hippopotamus Debate
1998 Darwin Vindicated: the Pax-6 Gene and Evolution of the Eye
1999 Perish, then Publish: Thomas Harriot, “A briefe and true report of the new found land of
Virginia” and the Moons of Jupiter
2000 Innovation and its Discontents
2001 How George Washington’s Spectacles Saved the Republic
2002 Thus Saw Zarathustra: The Eyes and Brain of Friedrich Nietzsche
2003 Doing History: The Cogan Society after 15 years
2004 Two Early Cases of Cortical Blindness
2005 The Rise and Fall of Coal Miners’ Nystagmus P*
2006 Lincoln’s Craniofacial Microsomia
2007 Oxygen, Prematurity, Blindness: The Early Years
2008 Martha, Sigmund, and Karl: A Love Story
2009 Cycopia I: Congenital Malformations from Homer to the Enlightenment
2010 The Vulcan Eyebrow Sign in Abraham Lincoln and His Family: A Sign of Unilateral Coronal
Craniosynostosis
2011 Jakob Henle and the Germ Theory of Disease
2012 Joseph Priestley’s Book on Optics
2013 Disease on the Oregon Trail
2014 Evolutionary Medicine
2015 The Slow Adoption of Surgical Gloves
2016 Obsolescence
2017 Koller's Introduction of Local Anesthesia and Its Aftermath
2018 Evolution of Contralaterality in the Vertebrate Brain, Or, Why Do We Have an Optic Chiasm?
(Special Recognition lecture) P*
2019 James Lind and the Scurvy Treatment Trial P*
Fitzgibbon, Edmond
2012 Keeping Things in Focus: A Brief History of Objective Refraction
Flom, Leonard
2016 The Role of the Iris biometric in the Pairing of Mothers to Newborns and for Infants for Lifetime
Identification
Flynn, Jr., Harry W.
2024: Endophthalmitis: Then and Now
2024 Cystoid Macular Edema: The History of Its Diagnosis and Treatment (with Jaime D. Martinez, Juan Carlos Navia, Christopher T. Leffler, Dennis Bermudez, and Stephen G Schwartz)
Flynn, John
1991 The Founding of Orthoptics: American and European Experience
1993 July 23, 1946 - A Day That Will Live in Infamy (with Reva Hurtes)
1995 Edward W.D. Norton: An Ophthalmologist for All Seasons, Part I (with Reva Hurtes)
1997 Ophthalmic Practice Patterns in the American Century II
1999 Werner Ernst Reichardt, Ph.D.: The Founder of Modern Computational Visual Neuro-
Physiology and Anti-Nazi Resistance Fighter
Forbes, Max
2002 Edward S. Harkness
Foster, C. Stephen
2017 History of Uveitis Therapy
Franceschetti, Albert (deceased, 2022)
2012 The First Female Medical Students
2013 Hermann Burian MD, the Gentleman of Amblyopia
2015 Professor A. Franceschetti (1896 - 1968) - A Tribute to My Father
2017 Charles-Michel Billard (1800-1832): An Unknown Great Figure of the XIXth Century
2018 Charles Bonnet and His Syndrome P*
2019 The Story behind Amsler's Grid P*
Frayer, William
1990 The Origins and Evolution of the Lancaster Course in Ophthalmology
1992 George Edmund deSchweinitz, M.D.
1994 William Fisher Norris
1995 S. Weir Mitchell: An Early Neuro-Ophthalmologist
1997 The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
2000 Dr. Rush’s Eye Water and the Opening of the American West
2003 Fish Stories and Clinical Trials
Freeny, Patrick
2019 The Great Bear Rain Forest (special guest lecture)
Fritch, Charles
1989 Ocular Laser Surgery — The Contributions of Dr. H.C. Zweng
1990 Irving Leopold: The Man and His Magic
1992 Eugen von Hippel
1993 History of Kaiser-Permanente
1996 William Ming: San Joaquin Valley Pioneer Ophthalmologist
2017 Stanley M. Truhlsen, MD: Life and Career
Fuchsluger, Thomas
2021 The Frequency of Keratectasias and Staphylomas in the Course of the 19th Century Up to Today -
An Analysis Based on Rostock’s Artificial Eyes Collections (with Rudolf F. Guthoff, Thomas Stahnke,
and Daniel Schubert)
Gabriel, Justus
2022 Historical Perspectives on Visual Hysteria (with Robert Enzenauer)
Galst, Jay M. (deceased, 2020)
1997 Ophthalmology in Nummis
1998 The Eye in Nummis
2000 Medallic Remembrances of Von Helmholtz
2001 Dr. Albert von Pflugk: His Pioneering Work on Spectacle Coins and Medals. I.
2002 Dr. Alfred von Pflugk: Coins, Tokens and Medals Depicting Spectacles. Part II
2004 David Rittenhouse: George Washington’s Optician. The First United States Mint Director
2005 The Gonin Medal—The Nobel Price of Ophthalmology P*
2008 The Charles Coutela Medal-Paul Richer’s Last Medallic Artwork
2012 The Blinding of King Zaleukos of Lokri on a 16th Century German Medal
2015 Focusing on the Details: Ophthalmologists and Numismatists (Snyder Lecture)
2017 Otto Wichterle, Father of the Soft Contact Lens
2019 Why are Spectacles Depicted on the 1582 Siege Coins of Audenarde? P*
Gasch, Alice T. (Wendy)
2010 Ophthalmic Abnormalities Manifested by the Gargoyles of Washington National Cathedral
2011 William Moon and his Tactile Reading System
2012 Newton (Uyesugi) Wesley: Contact Lens Pioneer and Advocate
2013 Lovers’ Eyes
2014 Abraham Nemeth: Facilitator of Math and Science Careers for the Blind
2015 Guide Horses: An Alternative to Guide Dogs
2016 Onchocerciasis and Its Control
2017 Lash Lure and Paraphenylenediamine: Toxic Beauty Past & Present
2018 The Eponyms of the Human Eyelid Glands P*
2021 Optography: Its Rise and Fall
2023 Gerhard Rudolph Edmund Meyer-Schwickerath (1920-92): Propagator of the Use of Light as a
Non-invasive Therapeutic Tool P*
2024 The White Cane
2024 Margaret Brand, MBBS: A Pioneer for the Prevention of Blindness in Leprosy (with Eric Wan and Elizabeth Schexnyder)
Gauger, Grant
1991 The Great Mind of Thomas Young
1994 Astronauts and the Accelerator: The Light Flash Phenomenon
George, Bria
2024 The Pioneering Contributions of 21st Century Black Women in Ophthalmology (with Monique
Barbour)
Gittinger, John W., Jr.
1988 Freud and Janet: Functional Hemianopia at Charcot’s Salpetriere
1989 Harvey Cushing — A Man Who Learned From His Mistakes
1990 Ophthalmology, Then and Now. The American Ophthalmic Literature 50 and 100 Years Ago
1991 Oliver Wendell Holmes’ Ocular Theories
1995 The Life and Death of George S. Derby, M.D.
1996 Early Ophthalmologist Esperantists
1999 Radiation and Cataracts: Cause or Cure (Snyder lecture)
2003 A Talk on the Wilde Side: Sir William Wilde
2005 Argyrol and Dr. Barnes P*
2007 The Philosophic, Physiologic, and Metaphoric Blind Spot of Mariotte
2008 When Fathers; Disagree: Enucleation of a Footnote
2010 The Jeffries of Boston and the First Airmail Letter
2011 The Focal Infection Theory and its Consequences
2012 Wilhelm Kuhne and Optograms
2013 Thomas Young Revisited
2015 The Quest for a Medical Treatment of Cataract
2018 That the Blind May Write: William Hickling Prescott and the Noctograph P*
2019 Night Blindness in Soldiers and Sailors: From Malingering to Malnutrition P*
2023 Fever Therapy in Ophthalmology P*
2024 The Fundus Oculi and the Determination of Death
Glew, William (deceased, 2019)
1988 A Twentieth Century Perspective on Jacques Daviel (1693-1762)
1989 American Eye Hospitals: 19th Century Beginnings
1992 Peter Mark Roget, M.D. (1779-1869) and the Persistent Visual Image
1994 A Seminal Year in Ophthalmology: 1895
1997 John Dalton and His Serendipitous Contribution to Archeology
1999 An Internet Survey of the History of Ophthalmology
Gloor, Balder
2011 Retina and Macula have Their Own History - from Felix Platter (1583) to OCT
2011 Primary Presentation - Retinal Surgery at the Time Gonin Was Swimming Against the
Mainstream
2012 Visual Axis, Blind Spot, Yellow Spot – Controversies over 400 Years
2014 Arthur Gloor – A Half Century of Ophthalmology in Daily Practice and in a City Hospital
in the First Half of the Last Century (1899-1954)
Goes, Frank Joseph
2021 The Artist and the Eye
2024 The Fundus Oculi and the Determination of Death
Gonzalez, Alvaro Fernandez-Vega
2022 The History of Pneumatic Retinopexy: Have We Come Full Circle? (with Rajeev H. Muni)
Goyal, Anita
2019 It’s His Fault! The Complications of Dieffenbach’s Primacy P* (with Norman Medow and Gabriel
Rand)
Green, W. Richard
1997 Memorial to Arthur Keeney
Greenfield, Leah
2022 Eye Surgeons Who Became Generals and Admirals: Spencer C. Dickerson (1871-1948) (with
Robert Enzenauer)
Griggs, Walter
1995 Peter Parker
1996 Carlos Finlay, Ophthalmologist: Yellow Jack and the Panama Canal
1999 The Farnsworth Lantern
Grzybowski, Andrzej
2009 Ludwik Zamenhof-One of the Most Famous Ophthalmologists in the World’s Culture
2011 Vincenz Fukala (1847-1911) - Versatile Surgeon and Original Historian of Ophthalmology
2012 Boleslaw Wicherkiewicz – Interesting Contributor to European Ophthalmology (with Dieter
Schmidt)
2015 The First Cataract Surgeons in Anglo-America P* (with Christopher T. Leffler, Stephen G.
Schwartz, and Puneet Braich) Published as: Leffler CT, Schwartz SG, Grzybowski A, Braich PS.
The first cataract surgeons in Anglo-America. Survey of Ophthalmology 2015; 60:86-92. PMID
25444521
2019 Famous Monocular Warriors P* (with Dennis Bermudez, Stephen Schwartz and Christopher
Leffler). Published as: Schwartz SG, Leffler CT, Grzybowski A, Bermudez D. Famous monocular
warriors. Historia Ophthalmologica Internationalis 2018;2:161-7
2021 Tadeusz Krwawicz – The Man Who Invented Cataract Cryoextraction
2024 Dorothy Tiffany Burlingham and the Psychology of the Blind Child (with Stephen Schwartz and Christopher Leffler)
Guly, Henry
2017 Snow Blindness During the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration
Guthoff, Rudolf F.
2021 The Frequency of Keratectasias and Staphylomas in the Course of the 19th Century Up to Today -
An Analysis Based on Rostock’s Artificial Eyes Collections (with Thomas Fuchsluger, Thomas Stahnke,
and Daniel Schubert)
Hadi, Tamer
2016 A Medieval Fallacy: the Crystalline Lens in the Center of the Eye (with Christopher Leffler,
Akrithi Udupi, Stephen G. Schwartz and Daniel Schwartz). Published as: Leffler CT, Hadi TM,
Udupa A, Schwartz SG, Schwartz D. A medieval fallacy: the crystalline lens in the center of the
eye. Clinical Ophthalmology 2016; 10:649-62. PMID 27114699
Harman, Lynn E.
2014 Diet Pills and the Cataract Outbreak of 1935: Reflections on the Evolution of Consumer
Protection Legislation (with Curtis Margo)
2015 Rudolph Virchow's Medical School Dissertation on Rheumatism and the Cornea (with
Curtis Margo)
2016 Conceptual History of Autoimmunity: Perspectives on the Contributions of Ocular
Immunology (with Curtis Margo)
2017 Sir Charles Sherrington, His Law, and Great Debates in Neuroscience (with Curtis Margo)
2018 Charles Dickens, Trachoma, and Pre-Victorian England (with Curtis Margo) P*
2023 Helen Keller, Ophthalmia Neonatorum, and the Social Dimensions of Eye Disease (with Curtis
Margo) P*
Hardwig, Paul
1998 Eighteenth Century Vienna: To Mesmerize or Not?
Harper, David G. (deceased)
2003 A Century of Perspective on Tscherning’s Theory of Accommodation
2009 The History of Presbyopia
2010 Marius Tscherning (1854-1939): Optical Physiologist par Excellence
2011 Accommodation in the 18th Century: The Bakerian and Croonian Lectures
2012 The Several Discoveries of the Ciliary Muscle. Published as: Harper David G. Bringing
accommodation into focus: The several discoveries of the ciliary muscle. JAMA Ophthalmology
2014; 132:645-8. PMID 24504191
2013 The Helmholtz Theory of Accommodation: The Ciliary Muscle and the Lens
2014 Allvar Gullstrand and Intracapsular Accommodation: His Nobel Prize Lecture, December 11,
1911
2016 Accommodation and the Nucleus: The Lens Within
2017 The Discovery of Hypermetropia: Accommodation to a New Era
2019 The Sociology of Refractive Errors: The Good, the Bad, and the Mysterious P* (Snyder lecture)
Hawley, H. Bradford
2019 Leonhard Euler: The Mysterious Oculopathy of a Mathematical Genius P* (with John D. Bullock
and Ronald E. Warwar)
Hedges, Thomas Jr. (deceased)
1991 Donald J. Lyle: The Almost Forgotten Neuro-Ophthalmologist
1993 When Irish Eyes Are Failing: A Study of Joyce’s Persistent Problems
1995 D. Hayes Agnew: The Last of the General Surgeon-Ophthalmologists at Pennsylvania
1997 Concerning Quakers, the Pennsylvania and Wills Eye Hospitals
1999 Francis Heed Adler of Philadelphia
2000 Haldan Keffer Hartline (1903-1983)
2005 Charles Bonnet Syndrome P*
Hedges, Thomas R.
2017 Josef Igersheimer, An Emigre Ophthalmologist's Story (with Marisa Gobuty Tieger)
Heitz, Robert (deceased 2021)
2001 The Earliest Fundus Visualization of Living Eyes
2002 Early 18th century Debates on Cataract and Glaucoma by the French Royal Academy of Sciences
2005 Early Use of Contact Lenses for Keratoconus Treatment in the USA P*
2007 Ludwig Laqueur’s Introduction of Physostigmine for Intraocular Pressure Lowering Glaucoma
Henderson, John
1991 Bilateral malignant ophthalmos: Its Management 75 Years Ago
1994 The Ophthalmic Practice of Dr. Charles Mayo
1996 The Yellow Brick Road to Penicillin: A Story of Serendipity: (Part I, II)
Hertle, Richard W.
1997 Ophthalmic Injuries During the Civil War
2000 Captain John L. Worden’s Eye Injury and Ophthalmic Care During the Civil War
2002 Clinical Trials in Medicine and Surgery During the Civil War
2004 Silas Weir Mitchell, M.D. (1829-1914): Neuro-ophthalmology and The American Civil War
2005 The Eye Disease of Jefferson Davis (1808-1889), Confederate States President (1861-1865) P*
2006 A Confederate Surgeon’s Treatment of Amblyopia in Adults
2007 Stereoscopy During the Civil War: News, Entertainment, or Propanganda?
2009 The History of Ophthalmology at the University of Pittsburgh: Highlights of Contributions in
Clinical Care, Education, and Research
2011 William Thomson, MD (1833-1907); Civil War Surgeon and The Evolution of Ophthalmology
2014 Enough Sight to Fight? The History of Military Visual System Requirements
2019 The History of Eye Movement Recording: 200 Years of Investigation
Hogan, R. Nick
1992 Was Noah the First Recorded Case of Oculocutaneous Albinism?
1996 Julius Hallervorden: Science vs Source
1999 The Discovery of Prions: Personalities, Politics, Perseverance
Hogewind, B. Frits
2023 The First Planned Cataract Extraction from the Posterior Chamber by Delivery of the Lens which
Jacques Daviel Documented was Performed on September 18, 1750 (with Christopher T. Leffler and
Stephen G. Schwartz) P*
Hong, Alison
2023 Dr. Patricia Bath (1942-2019): A Life’s Work Dedicated to Serving the Visually Impaired
Horn, Erich P.
2018 Financing the Cure: Historical Trends in the Cost of an American Medical Education
2019 How Did Implementation of Medicare Affect Ophthalmologists? P*
Horrocks, Thomas
1997 As Far as the Eye Can See: Ophthalmology in the Historical Library at the College of Physicians
of Philadelphia
Hughes, Michael
2019 Eyes of Gold – Incorporating Gold into Eye Care: A History P*
2021 Discarded Eye Items: A Photograph and a Human Prosthetic Glass Eye Give Clues to the Past
Hurtes, Reva
1993 July 23, 1946 - A Day That Will Live in Infamy (with John Flynn)
1995 Edward W. D. Norton: An Ophthalmologist for All Seasons, Part II (with John Flynn)
Huxley, Matthew
1988 Two Experiences of Treatment for Significant Visual Disabilities - Together With Reflections
Upon the Therapeutics Involved
Jampel, Robert S. (deceased, 2020)
1990 History of Advertising in Ophthalmology
1992 Professionalism, Licensing and Ophthalmology
1993 Historical Transitions in Cataract Surgery
1994 The Kresge Eye Institute: A Contemporary Political and Economic History
1996 Ethics and Cost-Plus Economics
1998 The Influence of Modern Technology on the Indications for Cataract Surgery
1999 Franciscus Cornelis Donders and His Law
2000 Ophthalmology and the Ascendancy of the Experimental Method: The Vesting of Authority in
Observation and Experiment
2001 The Foundations of Oculomotor Physiology
2002 Historical Notes on Concepts of Normal Ocular Kinematics
2004 On the History of So-called Static Ocular Counter-rolling
2005 History of Concepts of Extraocular Muscles Function
2006 Concerning Helmholtz’s View of Static Ocular Counterrolling
2007 The History of the Search for a Comprehensive Theory of Extraocular Muscle Function: From
Donders to Pulleys
Jastrzembski, Benjamin
2023 Dr. Elmer Carleton of the Dartmouth Eye Institute
Jennings, Bruce
2002 What Did Dr. Kevorkian Do Wrong?
Jo, Jace (Jason)
2023 From Cornea to Choroid, cornū to χόριον: the Latin and Greek Etymology of the Eye (with Krish
Sharma) P*
2024 The Musical Ophthalmologist, Henri Parinaud
Jokl, Danny Hirsch-Kauffmann
1999 The Unknown Robert Koch: His (and our) Debt to Ferdinand Cohn
2000 The Hirschberg Library and How it Came to Rest in Japan
2001 Julius Hirschberg’s Last American Journey – Insights and Anecdotes
2002 Von Siebold: The Father of Western Medicine and Ophthalmology in Japan
2003 Hermann Cohn (1838-1906). A Pioneer of Pediatric Ophthalmology
2006 Tatsuji Inouye—Topographer of the Visual Cortex
2007 Otfrid Foerster
2010 Albrecht von Graefe - Unrecognized Ophthalmic Contributions
2012 Relja Zivojnovic- Daring, Creative Vitreoretinal Surgeon of the “Inoperable Retinal Detachment”
2013 Endre A. Balazs, M.D., and David Miller, M.D., and The Serendipitous Origin of Viscosurgery
(Snyder Lecture)
2014 Dr. Jokichi Takamine – Samurai Chemist – Inventor of Epinephrine
2019 Hermann Knapp and Herrmann von Helmholtz at Columbia College of Physician & Surgeons
October 3, 1893 P*
2021 My Dear Doctor Knapp, Cher Monsieur, Dear Colleague and Friend! - Letters to Hermann Knapp
(1868-1911) at Columbia University New York (with Andreas Mettenleiter)
Joud, Hadi
2024 Lorenz E. Zimmerman: The Right Pathologist at the Right Time (with Curtis E. Margo)
Joy, Robert
1988 Teaching the History of Ophthalmology
Kalin Johnson, Cindi
1994 E.J. Curran: Historical Vignette
Kaler, Christopher
2024 Ophthalmic References in Emily Wilson’s Translation of Homer’s The Iliad
Kansupada, Kashyap
1995 Shushruta: Father of Indian Surgery and Ophthalmology (with Joseph Sassani)
Karcioglu, Zeynel
2019 Ophthalmic Pathology in the Parable of the Blind Leading the Blind by Pieter Bruegel
2021 Did Edgar Degas have Stargardt Disease (with Michael Marmor and Edwin Stone)
2024 How Do the Blind Painters Paint?
Keeler, C. Richard
1997 The Evolution of the British Ophthalmoscope
2000 The Ophthalmoscope in Helmholtz’s Lifetime
2002 Babbage the Unfortunate
2005 Exploring the Fundus: A 19th Century View P*
2007 Oculist to Queen Victoria
2008 Instrument Ancestry: Genesis of the Ophthalmic Examination (Snyder lecture)
2011 Congress among the Dreaming Spires
2012 Hjalmar August Schiotz: His Life and Recently Rediscovered Ophthalmoscope
2014 Arthur Mac Callan: Trachoma Pioneer in Egypt
2016 St. Dunstan's: Hostel for Blinded Soldiers and Sailors in the First World War
2017 "Pallor of Greatness:" Portrait of William Bowman and His Friends
2019 Celebrating Frans Donders’ 200th Anniversary P*
Keeney, Arthur (deceased)
1989 Dr. Verhoeff’s Box in the Attic: Lessons in Prototypes and Problem Solving
1990 The Evolution of Ocular Protection from the Descent of Man to Homo Erectus to Homo Sapiens
1992 A Wilde Irish Tale - Sir William Wilde and the Ophthalmologist Surrounding His Son, Oscar
Wilde
1993 Verhoeff at the North Pole with Admiral Perry: Tribulation and Tragedy (with Virginia Keeney)
1996 What was that Woman’s Name: Mary Broadfoot Walker and the First Clinical Trial of
Prostigmin
Keeney, Virginia
1993 Verhoeff at the North Pole with Admiral Perry: Tribulation and Tragedy (with
Arthur Keeney)
Kennedy, Robert
1992 The History of Ocular Prostheses and Orbital Implants
1993 History of Orbital Surgery in the United States
1995 The Use of Leeches in Medicine and Ophthalmology
2000 Elizabeth Blackwell, M.D.: The First Female in Medical School in the U.S.
Keunen, Jan E.E.
2021 The Quest for Snellen’s Dependable Optotypes (with Paulus T.V.M. de Jong)
Khan, F.
2018 The Monocular Duke of Urbino (with Stephen G. Schwartz, Pamela S. Chavis, Christopher T.
Leffler and D. Bermudez ) P* Published as: Schwartz SG, Leffler CT, Chavis PS, Khan F, Bermudez
D, Flynn HW. The monocular Duke of Urbino. Ophthalmology and Eye Diseases 2016;8(Suppl 1):15-
19 PMID: 27980441
Kleinberg, Teri
2014 Edmund Spaeth, from Wartime to Wills
Klintworth, Gordon K. (deceased, 2014)
1988 Giants of Pathology and the Cornea a Century Ago
1991 American Gothic
1992 The Case of Augustus D’Este
1993 The Eye of Horus
1995 Macular Corneal Dystrophy: The Pilgrim Connection
1997 Ophthalmic Pathology: From Clubs to the Web
2000 Ocular Argyrosis: The Importance of History
2003 Norman Ashton - The First Pathologist to Devote a Full-time Career to Ophthalmic Pathology
2006 Historical Aspects of Yellow, the Color Associated with Cowardice (Snyder Lecture)
2008 The Algernon B. Reese and Joseph A.C. Wadsworth Ophthalmic Pathology Collections-In
Search of a Long Term Safe Haven
2012 David G. Cogan: An Ophthalmic Pathologist Par Excellence
Knox, David (deceased, 2022)
1993 History of the Frank B. Walsh Society
1995 Cerebro-Ocular Whipple’s Disease: A 62 Year Odyssey from Death to Diagnosis
1997 Alan C. Woods, Sr.: A Giant in His Time
2001 Focal Infection and Ocular Inflammation: Evolution of a Concept
2005 Pathology and Pathologists in Neuro Ophthalmology P*
2008 Pars Planitis: History and Evaluation of Thinking About an Ocular Inflammation Syndrome
Koch, Hans-Reinhard
2015 Borri, the Prophet, on Lens Aspiration and the "Restitutio humorum" in the 17th century
Krizack, Joan
1988 Retrolental Fibroplasia: Experimental Research and Service at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear
Infirmary
1989 Lizzie Maud Carvill: First Woman of Ophthalmology
Kyle, Graham
2021 Two Stage Cataract Surgery...the Preliminary Iridectomy
La Piana, Frank
1988 Ophthalmology in War - Lessons from the Past
1989 Historically Significant Eye Injuries
1990 Early History of Eye Armor
1993 The American Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Ophthalmology
1996 Army Ophthalmology in the Viet Nam War
2000 Foveomacular Retinitis 1944-1970: An Autopsy Upon a Griffin
Lakshman, Nivan
2023 Howard Venable and the Desegregation of American Medicine
Lawrence, Linda
1999 The Eye Disease of Christopher Columbus
2001 The Historical Saint Lucy
2006 James IV of Scotland, “Cataract King”
2012 Tobiah and the Fish: Medicine or Magic?
2014 Datura: Dilatation into Darkness
2017 The Definition of Blindness
2021 American Notes, How Charles Dickens Changed the World of the Deaf-Blind
Laws, Edwards
1988 History of Neurosurgical Contributions to Neuro-Ophthalmology
Le, John Q
2018 American Insight into Strabismus Surgery Before 1838 (with Christopher Leffler and Stephen G.
Schwartz). P* Published as: Leffler CT, Schwartz SG, Le JQ. American insight into strabismus
surgery before 1838. Ophthalmology and Eye Diseases 2017; 9:1179172117729367. PMID 28932129
Leavitt, Jacqueline A.
2004 The History of Neuro-ophthalmology at Mayo Clinic
2007 Historical Treatments of Demyelinating Optic Neuritis
2009 The History of CT at Mayo Clinic
2016 Traumatic Nerve Palsy and History: the Influence of Ophthalmic Care on C. Everett Koop, MD
(with Susan Pepin)
2017 Sarah Edith Ives
Lee, John C.
1997 Cecil Starling O’Brien
2012 Marshall M. Parks, MD: Before Pediatric Ophthalmology
2013 Mansour F. Armaly, MD: Founder of the Glaucoma Service at the University of Iowa
2016 Charles D. Phelps, MD (1937-1985): Short Life, Big Impact (with H. Stanley Thompson)
2021 Highlights of the History of Iowa Eye
2022 Two Giant Pioneers in Ophthalmology: East and West
2023 Fyodorov: the Russian ophthalmologist, Inventor, Politician, and Professor P*
2024 Sohan S. Hayreh, M.D., Ph.D., D.Sc. (1927-2022)
Leffler, Christopher T.
2013 Evolution and Impact of Eye and Vision Terms in Written English (with Stephen G. Schwartz,
Russell Stackhouse, Byrd Davenport and Karli Spetzler P* Published as: Leffler CT, Schwartz SG,
Stackhouse R, Davenport B, Spetzler K. Evolution and impact of eye and vision terms in written
English. JAMA Ophthalmology 2013; 131:1625-31. PMID 24337558
2014 John Thomas Woolhouse (1666-1734): Bold Ophthalmic Innovator and Teacher
(with Stephen B. Schwartz). Published as: Leffler CT, Schwartz SG. A family of early English
oculists (1600-1751), with a reappraisal of John Thomas Woolhouse (1664-1733/1734).
Ophthalmology and Eye Diseases 2017; 9:1179172117732042 PMID 28989288
2015 The First Cataract Surgeons in Anglo-America (with Stephen G. Schwartz, Andrzej
Grzybowski and Puneet Braich) Published as: Leffler CT, Schwartz SG, Grzybowski A, Braich.
PS. The first cataract surgeons in Anglo-America. Survey of Ophthalmology 2015; 60:86-92.
PMID 25444521
2016 A Medieval Fallacy: the Crystalline Lens in the Center of the Eye (with Tamer Hadi,
Akrithi Udupi, Stephen G. Schwartz and Daniel Schwartz). Published as: Leffler CT, Hadi TM,
Udupa A, Schwartz SG, Schwartz D. A medieval fallacy: the crystalline lens in the center of the
eye. Clinical Ophthalmology 2016; 10:649-62. PMID 27114699
2017 Adventures of Some Early American Eye Surgeons (with Stephen G. Schwartz). Published as:
Leffler CT, Schwartz SG, Wainsztein RD, Pflugrath A, Peterson E. Ophthalmology in North
America: early stories (1491-1801). Ophthalmology and Eye Diseases 2017; 9:1179172117721902.
PMID 28804247
2018 American Insight into Strabismus Surgery before 1838 (with Stephen G. Schwartz and John Q.
Le) P* Published as: Leffler CT, Schwartz SG, Le JQ. American insight into strabismus surgery
before 1838. Ophthalmology and Eye Diseases 2017; 9:1179172117729367. PMID 28932129
2018 The Monocular Duke of Urbino (with Stephen G. Schwartz, Pamela S. Chavis, F. Khan, and
D. Bermudez ) P* Published as: Schwartz SG, Leffler CT, Chavis PS, Khan F, Bermudez D, Flynn
HW. The monocular Duke of Urbino. Ophthalmology and Eye Diseases 2016;8(Suppl 1):15-19.
PMID: 27980441
2019 Aspiration of Cataract in 1815 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania [poster] (with Charles E. Letocha,
Kasey Pierson and Stephen G. Schwartz). Published as: Leffler CT, Letocha CE, Pierson K,
Schwartz SG. Aspiration of cataract in 1815 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Digital Journal of
Ophthalmology 2017; 23(4):4-7. PMID 29403333
2019 Famous Monocular Warriors P* (with Stephen Schwartz and Andrzej Grzybowski) Published as:
Schwartz SG, Leffler CT, Grzybowski A, Bermudez D. Famous monocular warriors. Historia
Ophthalmologica Internationalis 2018;2:161-7
2021 Cheselden’s 1728 Report of Eye Surgery in the Congenitally Blind: New Information (with Stephen
G. Schwartz, Natario L. Couser, and Abdul-Rahman Salman)
2023 The First Planned Cataract Extraction from the Posterior Chamber by Delivery of the Lens Which
Jacques Daviel Documented was Performed on September 18, 1750 (with Christopher T. Leffler and
Stephen G. Schwartz) P*
2024 How Charles Kelman Invented Phacoemulsification in the 1960s: a Reappraisal (with Stephen
Schwartz)
2024 Dorothy Tiffany Burlingham and the Psychology of the Blind Child (with Stephen Schwartz and
Andrzej Grzybowski)
2024 Cystoid Macular Edema: The History of Its Diagnosis and Treatment (with Jaime D. Martinez,
Juan Carlos Navia, Dennis Bermudez, Harry W. Flynn Jr., and Stephen G Schwartz)
Lenoir, Timothy
2001 Vision Theories and Art
Letocha, Charles
1994 Did George McClellan Commit Malpractice?
1997 The 250th Anniversary of Cataract Extraction
2002 Ridley and Other IOL’s in Philadelphia
2006 Historical Treatment of Eye Disease in the Pennsylvania Dutch Region
2010 James Graham – An Oculist in America
2011 The Invention of Bifocals
2015 The New York Ophthalmic Hospital's Early History
2017 The Royal Oculist - Carl Theodor in Bavaria
2019 Why an Eye Hospital, Mr. Wills? P*. Published as: Letocha CE. Why an Eye Hospital, Mr. Wills?
Historia Ophthalmologica Internationalis 2019; 2: 188-225. http://histoph.com/letocha-wills-
2019 Aspiration of Cataract in 1815 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania [poster] (with Christopher T. Leffler,
Kasey Pierson and Stephen G. Schwartz). Published as: Leffler CT, Letocha CE, Pierson K,
Schwartz SG. Aspiration of cataract in 1815 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Digital Journal of
Ophthalmology 2017; 23(4):4-7. PMID 29403333
2023 The First Planned Cataract Extraction from the Posterior Chamber by Delivery of the Lens which
Jacques Daviel Documented was Performed on September 18, 1750 (with B. Frits Hogewind and
Stephen G. Schwartz. P*
Letson, Alan D.
2023 The History of Ophthalmology at The Ohio State University (with Sayoko E. Moroi)
Levy-Clarke, Grace
2024 From Bleeding to Biologics: Granulomatous Uveitis: Sympathetic Ophthalmia and Ocular Sarcoidosis: Informative Role in The Historical Understanding of Autoimmune Diseases
Linberg, John
1997 St. John’s Ophthalmic Hospital in Jerusalem
Loewenfeld, Irene
1998 Otto Lowenstein: Neurologic and Ophthalmologic Testing Methods During His Lifetime
Lucian, Veronica
2019 Novels, Storytelling and the Eye: Creative Writing Viewed Through the Ophthalmologist’s Lens P*
(with Robert Enzenauer)
Luntz, Maurice
2016 Selected Luminaries of Yesteryear
2017 Sir Benjamin Mycroft 1902 to 1967: His Contributions to Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive
Surgery
Luu, Kieu Yen
2019 Electrotherapeutics in Ophthalmology: A Shocking Tale P* (with Mark J. Mannis)
MacDonald, Ian
2019 X-linked Ocular Albinism – Mapping and Cloning the Gene P*
2021 Friedrich Best
Manley, Donelson (deceased, 2018)
2004 Sir Norman Gregg and the Rubella Virus
2005 The Historical Development of the Diagnosis of Cyclovertical Muscle Palsies P*
2006 The Four-Diopter Prism Test
2008 Ophthalmological Examinations Performed at Ellis Island, the Isola della Lacrime (The Island
of Tears)
2011 The History of the Three Step Test for Isolated Cyclovertical Muscle Palsy
2012 Richard G. Scobee, MD, The Ultimate Ocular Motility Man
2014 The History of the Intraocular Lens by Way of Hollywood (Mrs. Miniver and The Battle of
Britain)
2015 James Watson White, M.D.: Strabismologist Par Excellence and Former Chair of
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Mannis, Mark
1998 William Ellery Briggs: Pioneer of West Coast Ophthalmology
2000 Corneal Surgery: History’s Experiments and Their Legacy – A Cinematic Illustration
2004 Arthur von Hippel and the Trephine that “Revolutionized” Corneal Transplantation
2007 Erasmus Darwin and his Curious Corneal Trephine
2008 Keratoconus: the Historical Evolution of its Management
2012 R. Townley Paton, Father of Modern Eye Banking: A Portrait of His Own Times in His Own
Words
2014 Ophthalmic Anesthesia: A Brief History
2015 The Dark Side of Those who Guard the Light: Ophthalmologists in Crime
2016 Shakespeare's Eye (Snyder Lecture)
2017 New Trends in Medical Therapy for the Cornea: 2017, 1917, 2117
2019 Electrotherapeutics in Ophthalmology: A Shocking Tale P* (with Kieu Yen Luu)
2021 What's in a Name? A Short History of Ophthalmic Drug Nomenclature (with Gary D. Novack)
2023 The Vision of Esperanto: Ludwik Zamenhof's Dream
Manzouri, Bita
2021 Corneal Transplantation - A History, from Ancient Greece to Europe in the 21st Century
Margo, Curtis
2012 Diderot’s Letter on the Blind for the Use of Those Who Can See: Perspectives on its
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2013 George Berkeley and the New Theory of Vision
2014 Diet Pills and the Cataract Outbreak of 1935: Reflections on the Evolution of Consumer
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2015 Rudolph Virchow's Medical School Dissertation on Rheumatism and the Cornea (with
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2016 Conceptual History of Autoimmunity: Perspectives on the Contributions of Ocular
Immunology (with Lynn E. Harman)
2017 Sir Charles Sherrington, His Law, and Great Debates in Neuroscience (with Lynn E. Harman)
2018 Charles Dickens, Trachoma, and Pre-Victorian England (with Lynn E. Harman) P*
2019 From Starch to Misfolded Protein: Milestones in the Scientific Understanding of Amyloid P*
2023 Helen Keller, Ophthalmia Neonatorum, and the Social Dimensions of Eye Disease (with Lynn
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2024 Jonas Friedenwald, Eugene Wolff, and the Two Books that Helped Bridge the Specialty Gap
(Snyder Lecture)
2024 Lorenz E. Zimmerman: The Right Pathologist at the Right Time (with Hadi Joud)
Mark, Harry H. (deceased, 2021)
2008 Isaac Newton and the Phosphene
2009 Early Glaucoma History: Buphthalmos
2010 Athanasius Kircher and his Ars Magna Book
2011 Wm. Hyde Wollaston, Optic Chiasm, and the Big Bang
2012 “Raft of the Medusa”, Phosphenes, and Potential Vision
2013 The Site of the Optical Image in the Eye
2014 Mikhail Lomonosov on Lights and Colors
2015 The Amazing Pinhole
2016 Emerging Ideas About the Lens and Cataract in the 17th Century
2017 The Role of Eye Size in Ophthalmology
2018 Measuring the Eye, a History
2019 Franciscus Maurolicus Revisited P*
Marmor, Michael F.
1995 Wilson’s Eyes and Link’s Vision: On the Use and Abuse of Medical History
1996 The Inner Vision of Eduard Munch
1997 Newton’s Prism, Goethe’s Primer, and Turner’s Palette
1998 Lest We Forget: The Training of George Kambara, M.D.
1999 A Brief History of Macular Grids
2000 The Dilemma of Color Deficiency in Art
2001 Koch’s Postulate and Hansen’s Dilemma
2002 Escher and the Ophthalmologist
2003 The Impact of Failing Vision on the Late Works of Degas
2004 Monet Through his Own Eyes (Snyder Lecture)
2006 Delius and the Impact of Blindness in Composition
2007 The Evolution of Treatment for Retinal Detachment
2008 The Eye’s Mind: A Poetic Excursion into the Ocular Evolution
2009 Did Rembrandt Have Strabismus?
2010 Color Blindness and Art
2011 The birth of fluorescein angiography: 50 years ago
2012 Did Degas’ Maculopathy Affect His Sculpture?
2013 The Curious Case of Baccio Bandinelli
2014 Blindness and Deafness in Artists and Composers
2015 Morbid Sensibility of the Retina
2016 The Ophthalmic Sleuth: Unfinished Paintings in the Pitti Palace
2017 John Dalton's Papers on Color Blindness
2018 A Truly Dominant Disease
2019 Did Leonardo Have Strabismus?
2021 Did Edgar Degas have Stargardt Disease (with Zeynel Karcioglu and Edwin Stone)
Marshall, W. H.
1999 Eye Care Reflected on Victorian Trade Cards
2000 www.Hoodwink the Ocularist.con
2003 The Eye Normalizer: How and Why it Worked for 30 Years
Martinez, Jaime D.
2024 Cystoid Macular Edema: The History of Its Diagnosis and Treatment (with Dennis Bermudez, Juan Carlos Navia, Christopher T. Leffler, Harry W. Flynn Jr., and Stephen G Schwartz)
Maumenee, Edward (deceased)
1991 The History of Vitmin A
McAllister, Ian L.
2015 Devices and Aids for the Teaching and Demonstration of Ophthalmoscopy in the 19th Century
Medow, Norman
1997 Alexander Duane: Semanticist, Surgeon, and Strabismologist
1998 Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach: The Father of Strabismus Surgery and Much, Much More
2000 George Thomas Stevens, M.D., and the Stevens Commission 1887-1889
2002 Head Tilts and Face Turns: Life and Times of Alfred Bielschowsky (1871-1940)
2004 The Life and Times of A. Cecil Alport (1880-1959)
2008 The Evolution of Cataract Surgery in Children
2011 Physicians - Poisons - Pupils and a Bella Donna The Evolution of Forensics (Snyder lecture)
2017 The Wild Wildes: Sir William, Lady Jane, and of course...OSCAR
2019 It’s His Fault! The Complications of Dieffenbach’s Primacy P* (with Anita Goyal and Gabriel
Rand)
2022 The Life and Times of Abraham Schlossman…”Abe”
2023 Kenneth C. Swan M.D. …. The Man…. His Incision….and much…much…more!!
2024 Crime and Punishment: The Evolution of Medical Malpractice and Ophthalmology's Position Within!
Meier-Gibbons, Frances
2021 The Discovery of the Aqueous Veins: Ascher versus Goldmann – A Dispute Between Two Pupils of
Elschnig
2022 The Most Famous Notebook in Ophthalmic History
2023 Ophthalmology in Stamps: From Ancient Times to the Present (with Thierry Zeyen) P*
Meltzer, Gerald
2017 The Halifax Explosion of 1917
Mettenleiter, Andreas
2015 The Ophthalmologist Joseph Schneider, M.D. (1845 - 1927) a fascinating German-
American Career
2021 My Dear Doctor Knapp, Cher Monsieur, Dear Colleague and Friend! - Letters to Hermann Knapp
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Michael, John
1996 Ophthalmology in Ancient Assyria
Miller, Marilyn T. (deceased, 2021)
2011 Martin Urist, MD, A Man Always A Little Out Of Step With His Profession
2012 G. Venkataswamy: A Man with a Heart and a McDonald’s Type Business Plan
Morales, Natalia
2024 The Influence of Trachoma on the Establishment of Modern Ophthalmology – a “Worldwind” tour
(with Phillip Custer)
2024 The History of Entropion (with Phillip Custer)
Moroi, Sayoko
2004 A Close Look at the History and Facts of Ginkgo Biloba and Bilberry
2005 Arnold Sorsby, MD -- 20th Century Clinician-Scientist P*
2012 Julia Bell, MRCS, LRCP, FRCP (1879-1979) – A Legendary Female Pioneer in Human Genetics
(with Gale Oren)
2017 The History and Development of Iris Prosthetics (with David S. Sanders)
2023 The History of Ophthalmology at The Ohio State University (with Alan D. Letson)
Moshiri, Ala
2023 Macular Star Retinopathy (with Tim Stout)
Muirhead, J. Fraser
2010 The Case History of an Eighteenth Century Case History. Published as: Muirhead JF. Wilhelm
August Gottlieb Manniske, MD (1769-1835): Microscope Use During Removal of Buried Corneal Body
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2012 Adolph Barkan and His Diary. Published as: Adolph Barkan (1835-1935), European
Ophthalmologist in San Francisco. JAMA Ophthalmology 2014; 132:346-9. PMID 24626825
2015 Unusual Posterior Synechiae on the Bust of Peter the Great in the Russian State Museum, Saint
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2016 Joseph LeConte, MD, MA: Geologist and Vision Scientist
2019 The First Published Ophthalmoscopic Illustrations by A. C. van Trigt, MD P*. Published as:
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2022 The History of Pneumatic Retinopexy: Have We Come Full Circle? (with Alvaro Fernandez-Vega
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1989 Frank Buller, M.D. - First Professor of Ophthalmology, McGill University
1991 Casey Wood and the Birds
1992 Eskimo Goggles
1994 Edward Lear - Painter, Poet, Myope
1995 The Eye in Art
1996 McGill University Ophthalmology
2001 A Passion for Books: William Osler, Casey Wood and McGill University (Snyder lecture)
Nakhwa, Chinmay
2018 200 Glorious Years of Indian Ophthalmology (with Sundaram Natarajan and Utkarsha Padwal)
Natarajan, Sundaram
2018 200 Glorious Years of Indian Ophthalmology (with Utkarsha Padwal and Chinmay Nakhwa)
Navia, Juan Carlos
2024 Cystoid Macular Edema: The History of Its Diagnosis and Treatment (with Dennis Bermudez, Christopher T. Leffler, Harry W. Flynn, Jr., and Stephen G Schwartz)
Neri-Vela, Rolando
2016 Badianus Codex and Ophthalmology
2017 Manuel Uribe Troncoso and His Works
2019 Observation of the Microfilariae of O. Volvulus in the Anterior Chamber of the Eye P* (with Luis
Vicente Sánchez-Fernández)
Newell, Frank (deceased, 1998)
1988 William Clay Wallace: America’s First Professor of Ophthalmology
1989 Franciscus Cornelius Donders
1990 Citizen C.R. Agnew, M.D., Ophthalmologist
1991 America’s Forgotten Ophthalmic Historian: T.H. Shastid
1992 Cornelius Rea Agnew
1993 United States Ophthalmology 1876
1994 Origins of the National Eye Institute (Snyder Lecture)
1995 The Western Ophthalmological, Otological, Laryngological, and Rhinological Association
1996 The American Journal of Ophthalmology, 1864-1885
Newman, Steven A.
1989 Leo M. Davidoff, A Neurosurgeon’s Contributions to Ophthalmology. A Personal Perspective
1990 The Chiasm: A Neuro-Ophthalmic Junction
1991 The First Neuro-Ophthalmology Case
1992 Steroephotography and Ophthalmology
1993 William Holland Wilmer: A Virginia Gentleman
1994 Neurology of Eye Muscles. Emergence of a Neuro-Ophthalmologist
1995 Neuro-Ophthalmology and the Origins of the Academy
1996 Tropical Ophthalmology from Raj to the Ophthalmology of Developing Countries
1998 Greenfield Sluder: Nasal Neurology, Headaches and Eye Disorders of Nasal Origin
2000 Quantitation in Ophthalmology: A Science in Evolution (Snyder Lecture)
2001 Lacrimal Parasympathetic Innervation: A Model for Going Astray
2004 Aviation Medicine and Ophthalmology
2005 Homonymous Hemianopsia: The Localizing Value of Incongruity P*
2007 Tonometry (AGS Joint Session)
2009 An Eye for an Eye: Review of Medical Legal Ophthalmology
2011 Base Hospital 5 and Ophthalmology with the American Expeditionary Force in
World War I
2012 Mementos from Dr. Cogan’s Closet
2013 History of Orbital Surgery: Evolution and Revolution
2014 Ophthalmic Injuries at Hiroshima and Nagasaki – David Cogan and the Atomic Bomb Casualty
Commission
2015 Vesalius 500th Anniversary of the Birth of the Author of the Fabrica. Early Practical
Understanding of Head and Neck Anatomy
2016 Harvey Cushing and the Practical Evolution of Visual Field Testing and Its Role in the
Development of Neurosurgery (with Samuel Yun and Robert L. Lesser)
2017 The American Board of Ophthalmology and Origins of Specialty Education
2018 Ernest Maddox and Heterophoria P*
2019 Evolution of Modern Cataract Surgery P*
2021 H.B. Stallard. More than just Chariots of Fire
2022 The Development of the Slit Lamp
Noe, Adrianne
1988 William Holland Wilmer and Aviation Ophthalmology in World War I
Norton, Edward (deceased)
1992 Argyrosis-Art
Novack, Gary D.
2021 What's in a Name? A Short History of Ophthalmic Drug Nomenclature (with Mark Mannis)
2023 Regulation of Ophthalmic Ocular Hypotensive Drug Approval in the US over the Past 140 Years
P*
O’Connor, G. Richard (deceased)
2003 The History of Toxoplasmosis: The Early Discoveries
2004 The Third Eye
2006 Phillips Thygeson: His Search for the Cause and Cure of Trachoma
O’Day, Dennis M. (deceased)
2003 The Legacy of Derrick Vail
Odel, Jeffrey
1988 Cushing’s Crucial Case
1989 Bell, Book and Berry
1990 Gowers Genths his Gunn
1991 Jonathan Hutchinson and the Archives of Surgery (London)
1992 Photography: The Second Vision
Olivier, Mildred M.G.
2022 Overcoming a History of Discrimination in the Medical Training Pipeline and Identifying the
Leadership of African American Ophthalmologists in Addressing Health Care Disparities (with Eydie
Miller Ellis)
Oren, Gale
2012 Julia Bell, MRCS, LRCP, FRCP (1879-1979) – A Legendary Female Pioneer in Human Genetics
(with Sayoko Moroi)
Ott, Katherine
1997 How Medicine Mirrors Society: Sympathetic Ophthalmia in the 19th Century
Padwal, Utkarsha
2018 200 Glorious Years of Indian Ophthalmology (with Sundaram Naarajan and Chinmay Nakhwa)
Parascandola, John
1988 Historical Resources of the National Library of Medicine
1989 Manuscript Material in the History of Ophthalmology at the National Library of Medicine
1990 Development of the Draize Test for Eye Toxicity
1991 Sources for Historical Research
Parks, Marshall (deceased)
1988 History of the Development of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus as a Sub-Specialty in
Ophthalmology
1989 Tenon, Ferrell, and Lockwood: On Orbital Fascia
1991 Wheatstone: His Amazing Knowledge about Stereopsis
Patz, Arnall (deceased, 2010)
1990 Jonas S. Friedenwald, Physician/Scientist
1992 T.L. Terry and V.E. Kinsey in the Retinopathy of Prematurity Saga
1993 G. Meyer-Schwickerath “Let There Be Light”
1997 From Wilmer’s Dusty Basement: L. Sloan, S. Kuffler, D. Hubel and T. Wiesel
Pepin, Susan
2016 Traumatic Nerve Palsy and History: the Influence of Ophthalmic Care on C. Everett Koop, MD
(with Jacqueline A. Leavitt)
Pierson, Kasey
2019 Aspiration of Cataract in 1815 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania [poster] (with Christopher T. Leffler,
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2019 A View of Baltimore Ophthalmology before the Wilmer Eye Institute [poster]
Pollen, Abraham
1988 A Tale of Two Jeffries
Porta, Massimo
2021 Early Descriptions of Diabetic Retinopathy
Raju, V.K.
1992 Indian Contributions to Medicine and Ophthalmology. Excerpts from the CHARAKA Club, NY,
1902
1995 The History of The Charaka Club
1996 Evil Spoken of Physicians (Excerpts from Charaka Club Proceedings)
1997 The Language of Medicine: Sanskrit, Greek and Latin
1998 Antiquity of Indian Medicine
1999 Surgical Ethics in Ayurveda
2001 The Bower Manuscript on Ayurveda
2002 Observations on the Language of Medicine
2004 Oral Tradition, Ayurveda and Modern Medicine
2007 Ophthalmology in Afghanistan: Past and Present
2010 Susruta of Ancient India
2012 Ophthalmology in Iran: Then and Now
2015 Management of Pterygium over the Centuries
Rand, Gabriel
2019 It’s His Fault! The Complications of Dieffenbach’s Primacy P* (with Norman Medow and Anita
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Ravin, James
1988 The Cataract Surgery of Claude Monet: Its Effect on the Impressionist Painter. Published as:
Ravin JG. Monet’s cataracts. JAMA 1985; 254:394-9. PMID 3892061.
1989 The Blindness of Degas: The Effect of Vision Loss on the Famous French Artist. Published as:
Ravin JG, Kenyon CA. Degas’ loss of vision: Evidence for a diagnosis of retinal disease. Survey of
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1990 Cataract, Diabetes and Radium: The Case of Cassatt. Published as: Cataracts, Diabetes, and
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1991 The Wanderings of a Literary Ophthalmologist: The Doyle-Houdini-Bessinet Correspondence.
Published as: Ravin, JG. The wanderings of a literary ophthalmologist: A. Conan Doyle, Houdini,
and Ada Besinnet. Documenta Ophthalmologica 1991; 77:335-47. PMID 1769303
1992 From Von Graefe’s Clinic to the Ecole des Beaux Arts: The Meteoric Career of Richard Liebreich.
Published as: Ravin JG, Kenyon C. From von Graefe’s clinic to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. The
meteoric career of Richard Liebreich. Survey of Ophthalmology 1992; 37:221-8. PMID 1475755
1993 Victoria’s Secret: The Queen’s Cataracts. Published as: Ravin JG. Queen Victoria, her physicians,
and her cataracts. Survey of Ophthalmology 1994; 38:475-82. PMID 8009431
1994 Pissarro, Dacryocystitis and the Development of Modern Lacrimal Surgery. Published as: Ravin
JG. Pissarro, dacryocystitis, and the development of modern lacrimal surgery. Documenta
Ophthalmologica 1994; 86:191-202. PMID 7995234
1995 Charles Meryon: A Color Defective Artist. Published as: Ravin JG, Anderson N, Lanthony P. An
artist with a color vision defect: Charles Meryon. Survey of Ophthalmology 1995; 39:403-8. PMID
7604364
1996 Paul Gachet’s Text, Military Ophthalmia in Europe. Published as: Ravin J, Amalric P. Paul-
Ferdinand Gachet’s unpublished manuscript. Ophthalmia in the armies of Europe. Documenta
Ophthalmologica 1997; 93:49-59. PMID 9476604
1997 Albert Einstein and his Mentor, Max Talmey (Snyder Lecture). Published as: Ravin JG. Albert
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Ophthalmologica 1997; 94:1-17. PMID 9657287
1998 Treacher Collins and His Medical Tour of Persia. Published as: Ravin JG. In the kingdom of the
Shah: Treacher Collins’ Persian adventure. Survey of Ophthalmology 1999; 43:361-7. PMID
10025519
1999 The Statesman, the Artist, and the Ophthalmologist: Clemenceau, Lautrec, and Meyer. Published
as: Ravin JG. The statesman, the artist, and the ophthalmologist: Clemenceau, Lautrec, and Meyer.
Archives of Ophthalmology 1999; 117:951-4. PMID 10408462
2000 Sesquicentennial of the Ophthalmoscope. Published as: Ravin JG. Sesquicentennial of the
ophthalmoscope. Archives of Ophthalmolgy 1999; 117:1634-8. PMID 10604669
2001 An English Surgeon in China: Thomas Colledge, M.D. Published as: Ravin JG. Thomas College: A
pioneering British eye surgeon in China. Archives of Ophthahlmology 2001; 119:1530-2. PMID
11594956
2002 The Sympathetic Ophthalmia of James Thurber. Published as: Ravin JG. James Thurber and the
problems of sympathetic ophthalmia. Archives of Ophthalmology 2002; 120:628-32. PMID 1200361
2003 Incidents at Shikarpur. Published as: Ravin JG. An Indian adventure: Derrick Vail’s Shikarpur
fragments. Archives of Ophthalmmology 2003; 121:720-4. PMID 12742853
2004 Representations of Blindness from Picasso’s Blue Period. Published as: Ravin JG, Perkins J.
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PMID 15078683
2006 Pixels and Painting: the Imagery of Chuck Close. Published as: Ravin JG, Odell PM. Pixels and
painting: Chuck Close and the fragmented image. Archives of Ophthalmology 2008; 126:1148-51.
PMID 18695114
2007 Four French Glaucomatous Artists - Glaucoma in Art (AGS Joint Session). Published as: Ravin
JG. The visual difficulties of selected artists and limitations of ophthalmological care during the 19th
and early 20th centuries. Transactions of the American Ophthalmological Society 2008; 106:402-25.
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2008 The Blindness of George Du Maurier (1834-1896). Published as: Retinal Disease and Art.
Marmor, MF, Ravin JG, eds. The Eye of the Artist. NY: Abrams, 2009, pp. 182-3
2009 Surgical Treatment of Astigmatism. Louis Borsch’s MD Thesis, 1900. Published as: Ravin JG.
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19901225
2010 Lucien Howe, Hereditary Blindness and the Eugenics Movement (with Alexandra Minna Stern).
P* Published as: Ravin JG, Stern AM: Lucien Howe, hereditary blindness, and the eugenics
movement. Archives of Ophthalmology 2010; 128: 924-30. PMID 20625057
2011 What were they thinking? Published as: Ravin JG. Controversy in ophthalmology at the beginning
of the 20th century: opinions voiced in the archives, especially on cataract and glaucoma. Archives of
Ophthalmology 2011; 129:97-101. PMID 21220636
2012 The Magician with a Meningioma. Published as: Ravin JG. The magician with a meningioma.
Archives of Ophthalmology 2012; 130:1317-21. PMID 23044947
2013 Louise Hervieu, Her Illness and Campaign for a National Health Care Record in France. Published
as: Ravin J, d’Enfert G. Louise Hervieu’s illness and campaign for a national medical record in France.
Historia Ophthalmological Internationalis 2016; 2:73-81.
2014 Sigmund Freud Meets Hermann Knapp. Published as: J. Ravin. Sigmund Freud meets Hermann
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2015 Purloined Parts
2016 Iris Recognition Technology. Published as: Ravin JG. Iris recognition technology (or, musings
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2017 Gelsemium: From Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Self-Experiments to Use as a Toxin by the Russians.
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2018 Burning the Eyes with Lime as a Form of Justice in Late 18th Century China P* Published as:
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2019 Louisa May Alcott: Celebrating 150 Years of Little Women P*
2021 Phototherapy During the 20th Century: From Finsen (Nobel Prize, 1903) to Meyer-Schwickerath
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2022 The Cataract Surgery of Empress Eugenie (1826-1920) (with Tracy Ravin, Guillermo Simon
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2023 Flavel Tiffany's Sojourn Among the Oculists of Europe, 1896 P*
2024 Marat - Radical Politician and Scientific Writer
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2006 Rosalba Carriera and Her Vision Problems
2022 The Cataract Surgery of Empress Eugenie (1826-1920) (with James Ravin, Guillermo Simon
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2024 The Optical Art of Bridget Riley
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1994 The Tarsectomy Operation of A.P.L. Gillet de Grandmont (1837) and its Periodic Rediscovery
1995 Is it Duverney’s or Horner’s Muscle?
1998 The Life and Legacy of Dominique Anel
1999 Friedrich August von Ammon (1799-1861)
2002 Bashar Assad and the Syrian Succession. Is the Characterization,“Mild-Mannered
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2004 Oculofacial Plastic Surgery Subspecialization Past, Present and Future
2008 Albert Ticho
2010 Howard Leslie Lieberman, MD (1922 – 2006)
2015 Expanding a Cogan Society Paper into a Book (and getting it published): Days of Ticho: Empire
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2016 A Footnote in Hirschberg's History of Ophthalmology: the Rothschilds and Ophthalmologist Dr.
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2021 Columbus Discovered the LPS (But So Did Galen)!
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2016 Henri Parinaud: An Update on His Syndrome
2022 Eduard Hummelsheim (1868 -1952): Ophthalmologist and Pioneer of Ocular Muscle
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2012 The New York Eye Infirmary and the Flowering of Ophthalmology in America
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1988 Detailed Examination of Historical Artifacts
1989 Recent Acquisitions of Antique Chinese Spectacles and Cases
1990 Pince Nez
1991 A Short History of Glass
1992 The Story of Opera Glasses
1993 Unusual Chinese Eyeglass Cases
1994 Optical Uses of Fans
1995 Optical Charms
1996 Bar Spring Eye Glasses
1997 Wooden Eyeglass Cases, Including Tunbridgeware
1998 Dowager-Duchess Lorgnettes
1999 In Memoriam: Frank W. Newell, MD *
2000 A Collection of Monoculars
2001 Decorative Spectacle Cases
2002 Early American Spectacle Makers (Snyder Lecture)
Rosenwasser, George (deceased, 2021)
1996 The Woodcuts of Bartisch’s Das Ist Augendienst
1997 Ophthalmic Controversy in WWII
1998 Random Walk, The Ridley Lenses, and the Rack
1999 Vladimir Petrovich Filatov: Pioneering Corneal Surgeon
2011 Robert Machemer, A World Leader In Vitreoretinal Surgery
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1994 Pioneering Women in Ophthalmology
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2010 Gordon Lynn Walls (1905-1962). A Tribute and Personal Memoir
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2021 Eye Healing at the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes
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2002 Landmarks in the Development of Fluorescein Angiography
2004 Retinal Photography Atlases of the 20th Century
2005 The Cogan Society Website
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2021 Cheselden’s 1728 Report of Eye Surgery in the Congenitally Blind: New Information (with
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2022 The Sushruta Samhita: Cataract Surgery and Sanskrit Galore Yet Much More
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2019 Observation of the Microfilariae of O. Volvulus in the Anterior Chamber of the Eye P* (with
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2017 The History and Development of Iris Prosthetics (with Sayoko E. Moroi)
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2000 Early Days at Moorfields: The Contribution of St. Thomas’ and Guys Hospitals
Sanghvi, Suketu
1989 Rudolph Virchow, With a Footnote on Frederick Verhoeff
1990 The Ophthalmological Papers of Sir William Bowman
1993 History of Viscoelastic Use in Ophthalmic Surgery
Sassani, Joseph W.
1989 The History of Optometry: An Optometric Perspective
1992 Helen Keller: Beyond the Miracle
1994 History of Visual Rehabilitation
1998 Delta Gamma: Patronesses of Sight
2001 The Overbrook School for the Blind
2005 Paul A. Cox, M.D. Historic Historian P*
2009 Anne Sullivan Macy: Blind Teacher
2012 Salus University: Both the Oldest and Newest Non-profit, Independent, Optometric Higher
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2017 Dr. Robert J. Morrison: Contact Lens Pioneer, Inventor, and Eye Doctor to Many Including the
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2019 The History and Physical of the Medical Record P*
Savage-Smith, Emilie
1988 The Couching and Removal of Cataracts in Medieval Islam
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2024 Margaret Brand, MBBS: A Pioneer for the Prevention of Blindness in Leprosy (with Eric Wan and Alice “Wendy” Gasch)
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2000 Professor A. Franceschetti – Great Ophthalmologist and Humanitarian
Schroeder, Richard
2018 Quicklime as an Ocular Chemical Weapon: Examples in Ancient and Medieval Warfare (with
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Schubert, Daniel
2021 The Frequency of Keratectasias and Staphylomas in the Course of the 19th Century Up to Today -
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2009 Reflections on OCT
2010 The Evolution of Retinal Nutrition
Schwab, Ivan
2008 Phylogeny of the Cornea
2014 (1) Here’s Looking at You (2) Scriptural Optics
2015 The Eyes of Alice: From Eleanor of Aquitaine to Todd's Syndrome
2016 Why Is it Pronounced Fresnel?
2017 Does My Dog See in Color? The Evolution of Color Vision (Snyder Lecture)
2019 The Evolution of Accommodation P*
2023 Ocular Vestiges, Atavisms, and Remnants P*
Schwartz, Daniel
2016 A Medieval Fallacy: the Crystalline Lens in the Center of the Eye (with Christopher Leffler, Tamer
Hadi and Stephen G. Schwartz). Published as: Leffler CT, Hadi TM, Udupa A, Schwartz SG,
Schwartz D. A medieval fallacy: the crystalline lens in the center of the eye. Clinical Ophthalmology
2016; 10:649-62. PMID 27114699
Schwartz, Stephen G.
2013 Evolution and Impact of Eye and Vision Terms in Written English P* Published as:
Leffler CT, Schwartz SG, Stackhouse R, Davenport B, Spetzler K. Evolution and impact of eye and
vision terms in written English. JAMA Ophthalmology 2013; 131:1625-31. PMID 24337558
2014 John Thomas Woolhouse (1666-1734): Bold Ophthalmic Innovator and Teacher
(with Christopher T. Leffler). Published as: Leffler CT, Schwartz SG. A family of early English
oculists (1600-1751), with a reappraisal of John Thomas Woolhouse (1664-1733/1734).
Ophthalmology and Eye Diseases 2017; 9:1179172117732042PMID 28989288
2015 The First Cataract Surgeons in Anglo-America (with Christopher T. Leffler, Andrzej
Grabowski and Punkte Braich) P* Published as: Leffler CT, Schwartz SG, Grzybowski A, Braich
PS. The first cataract surgeons in Anglo-America. Survey of Ophthalmology 2015; 60:86-92. PMID
25444521
2016 A Medieval Fallacy: the Crystalline Lens in the Center of the Eye (with Tamer Hadi,
Akrithi Udup, Christopher T. Leffler and Daniel Schwartz). Published as: Leffler CT, Hadi TM,
Udupa A, Schwartz SG, Schwartz D. A medieval fallacy: the crystalline lens in the center of the
eye. Clinical Ophthalmology 2016; 10:649-62. PMID 27114699
2017 Adventures of Some Early American Eye Surgeons (with Christopher T. Leffler). Published as:
Leffler CT, Schwartz SG, Wainsztein RD, Pflugrath A, Peterson E. Ophthalmology in North
America: early stories (1491-1801). Ophthalmology and Eye Diseases 2017; 9:1179172117721902.
PMID 28804247
2018 The Monocular Duke of Urbino (with Christopher T. Leffler, Pamela S. Chavis, F. Khan and D.
Bermudez) P* Published as: Schwartz SG, Leffler CT, Chavis PS, Khan F, Bermudez D, Flynn HW.
The monocular Duke of Urbino. Ophthalmology and Eye Diseases 2016;8(Suppl 1):15-19. PMID:
27980441
2018 American Insight into Strabismus Surgery (with Christopher T. Leffler and John Q. Le) P*
Published as: Leffler CT, Schwartz SG, Le JQ. American insight into strabismus surgery
before 1838. Ophthalmology and Eye Diseases 2017; 9:1179172117729367. PMID 28932129
2019 Aspiration of Cataract in 1815 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania [poster] (with Christopher T. Leffler,
Charles E. Letocha, and Kasey Pierson). Published as: Leffler CT, Letocha CE, Pierson K, Schwartz
SG. Aspiration of cataract in 1815 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Digital Journal of Ophthalmology
2017; 23(4):4-7. PMID 29403333
2019 Famous Monocular Warriors P* (with Christopher Leffler and Andrzej Grzybowski) Published as:
Schwartz SG, Leffler CT, Grzybowski A, Bermudez D. Famous monocular warriors. Historia
Ophthalmologica Internationalis 2018;2:161-7
2021 Cheselden’s 1728 Report of Eye Surgery in the Congenitally Blind: New Information (with
Christopher T. Leffler, Natario L. Couser, and Abdul-Rahman Salman)
2023 The First Planned Cataract Extraction from the Posterior Chamber by Delivery of the Lens Which
Jacques Daviel Documented was Performed on September 18, 1750 (with B. Frits Hogewind and
Christopher T. Leffler) P*
2024 How Charles Kelman Invented Phacoemulsification in the 1960s: a Reappraisal (with Christopher
Leffler)
2024 Dorothy Tiffany Burlingham and the Psychology of the Blind Child (with Andrzej Grzybowski and
Christopher Leffler)
2024 Cystoid Macular Edema: The History of Its Diagnosis and Treatment (with Jaime D. Martinez,
Juan Carlos Navia, Christopher T. Leffler, Dennis Bermudez, and Harry W. Flynn, Jr.)
Sharma, Krish
2023 From Cornea to Choroid, cornū to χόριον: the Latin and Greek Etymology of the Eye (with Jace
(Jason) Jo) P*
Sieving, Pamela C.
2005 Jorge Luis Borges: A Man of Metaphors and Myopia (with Johnny Tang) P*
2006 Proof and Consequences: The History of Clinical Trials in Ophthalmology
2008 This is Dedicated to the One I Love: Trends and Highlights in the Dedications and
Acknowledgements of Ophthalmic Texts
2009 O Christmas Tree: A History of ‘Christbaum’ and ‘Christbaumschmuck’ Cataracts
2010 Ophthalmology at Valparaiso
2011 Back to the Future: Resources for the Study of Ophthalmic History
2014 Cover Story: The Evolution of Covers of the Journal Formerly Known as “The Archives”
2015 A Brief History of Ophthalmic Genetics
2018 Fake News: Or, How Carrots Became a Weapon of War, and Helped Defeat the Nazis P*
2019 Charles Joe Snyder: Architect of Our Ophthalmic Heritage [poster] (with Ira Eliasoph)
2022 Nydia: The Blind Slave Girl of Pompeii (Snyder Lecture)
Sieving, Paul A.
2012 David Cogan and the National Eye Institute
Silverstein, Arthur M.
1990 Early History of Ocular Immunopathy
1992 Theory and Practice: Where has Progress in Keratoplasty Come From?
1995 Diagnostic Vogues and Epidemiological Trends
1997 Paul Ehrlich’s Ophthalmic Experiments: The Introduction of Fluorescein
2003 A Dedicated Life: Mildred Weisenfeld and the Fight For Sight
2005 When the Cure is Worse than the Disease: A Brief History of Ocular Immunopathology (Snyder
Lecture) P*
2006 Ocular Immunology 1905-1914: The Bandwagon Effect
2008 Sociological Aspects of Subdiscipline Formation: Ocular Immunopathology
2018 Virulent Smallpox: When Did It Start? (President's lecture) P*
Sims, Ron
2010 Ophthalmic Treasures from the Galter Health Sciences Library Special Collections at
Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois
Sinskey, Robert M.
2005 The Influence of Phacoemulsification on IOL’s and Vice Versa
Smith, Catherine Arnott
2017 Metadata Facilitating Context: The Case of the Perkins School Archives (with Jennifer Arnott)
Solebo, Ameenat Lola
2021 In Search of Hunain’s Ten Treatises on the Eye
Sonty, Sriram
2016 Ophthalmology in the 19th Century America: Evolution and Eminence
Spain-Ward, Patricia
1989 The Chicago Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary: Prototype of A Regional Medical Center
Spalton, David
2021 The Murky Story of Harold Ridley's First Lens Implant
Spellman, Robert
2005 The Eye Disease of Jefferson Davis (1808-1889), Confederate States President (1861-1865) (with
Richard W. Hertle) P*
Spencer, William (deceased, 2017)
1988 The Ophthalmic Pathology Club (Verhoeff Society) and Its Regional Clones
1990 The Friedenwalds
1991 Johann Friedrich Horner
1993 Charles F. Prentice “Opticist”
1994 Kuwabara: Cogan Oral History
1997 Administrators of the American Board of Ophthalmology
2000 Georgiana Dvorak-Theobald
2003 The Origin and Development of San Francisco Academic Ophthalmology (Snyder lecture)
2007 The Axenfeld-Rieger Anomaly in Retrospect
Spetzler, Karli
2013 Evolution and Impact of Eye and Vision Terms in Written English, with Christopher Leffler,
Stephen Schwartz, B Davenport and R Stackhouse. Published as: Leffler CT, Schwartz SG,
Stackhouse R, Davenport B, Spetzler K. Evolution and impact of eye and vision terms in written
English. JAMA Ophthalmology 2013; 131:1625-31. PMID 24337558
Spivey, Bruce
1998 Socialization of Ophthalmology as a Specialty
1999 Socialization/Corporate Evolution of Ophthalmology: The Future?
Stackhouse, Russell
2013 Evolution and Impact of Eye and Vision Terms in Written English, with Christopher Leffler,
Stephen Schwartz, B Davenport and K Spetzler P* Published as: Leffler CT, Schwartz SG,
Stackhouse R, Davenport B, Spetzler K. Evolution and impact of eye and vision terms in written
English. JAMA Ophthalmology 2013; 131:1625-31. PMID 24337558
Stahnke, Thomas
2021 The Frequency of Keratectasias and Staphylomas in the Course of the 19th Century Up to Today -
An Analysis Based on Rostock’s Artificial Eyes Collections (with Rudolf F. Guthoff, Thomas
Fuchsluger, and Daniel Schubert)
Stern, Alexandra Minna
2010 Lucien Howe, Hereditary Blindness and the Eugenics Movement (with James G. Ravin) P*
Stone, Edwin
2021 Did Edgar Degas have Stargardt Disease (with Michael Marmor and Zeynel Karcioglu)
Stout, Tim
2023 Macular Star Retinopathy (with Ala Moshiri)
Straatsma, Bradley R.
2016 Jules Stein, MD: Ophthalmologist, Entertainment Magnate, and Advocate for Vision
Sutter, Edward de
2021 The Sad Story of Prof. Dr. Med. Speleers and the Katyn Massacre
2023 Anophthalmia, Depleted Uranium and the Rest is History P*
2024 Albrecht von Graefe and the Ophthalmology Congress of Brussels, September 13-16, 1857
Tang, Johnny
2005 Jorge Luis Borges: A Man of Metaphors and Myopia (with Pamela C. Sieving) P*
Tasman, William (deceased, 2017)
1997 Stephen Girard: One Eyed American Patriot
1998 General Mikhail Kutuzov: One-Eyed Defender of Moscow
2000 Blindness of Joseph Pulitzer
2002 Did Theodore Roosevelt Have a Detached Retina?
2003 Jules Cloquet: French Anatomist and Surgeon, 1790-1883
2004 Wenzels, Father and Son: Oculists to King George III and Napoleon
2006 Antoine Maitre-Jan (1650-1725)
2007 A Personal Reminiscence about the Ridley Implant
2008 Familial Exudative Vitreoretinopathy (FEVR), 1968-2008
2009 Meyer Schwickerath (Snyder Lecture)
2013 Physician Signers of the Declaration of Independence
Taylor, David
2012 The Optic Nerve is Still Hollow?
Thompson, H. Stanley
1988 George Milbry Gould and the Gospel of Eye-Strain
1989 Samuel Pepys’ Eye Troubles
1992 The Decussation at the Chiasm
1993 The Introduction of Visual Field Testing into Clinical Practice
1995 The Growth of American Neuro-Ophthalmology (Snyder lecture)
1997 A Brief Video History of the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Iowa
1999 Words for the Pupil
2000 Some of Lee Allen’s Contributions to Ophthalmology
2001 1800 Years of Making Use of Pupillary Mobility as an Indicator of Visual Potential
2002 Professor Ishihara and his Test for Color Vision
2004 The Ophthalmic Clerihew
2005 Otto Lowenstein, Persistent Pupillographer P*
2006 Irene E Loewenfeld, PhD, Physiologist of the Pupil
2007 The Refractions of George Milby Gould
2008 Ida Mann and Some of the Obstacles She Hurdled
2009 A Very, Very, Negative Book Review
2011 A Quick Look at the Career and Publications of Sir Williams Lawrence
2013 Abe Flexner’s Influence on Iowa Medicine
Toth, Cynthia A.
2005 A History of Vitrectomy Surgery (with Robert Machemer) P*
Truhlsen, Stanley
1999 Harold Gifford, Sr., M.D.: Omaha’s Premier Turn of the Century Ophthalmologist
2001 The Publications of the American Academy of Ophthalmology
2003 The Knapps
2005 The Diversion Club
Tull, John
2000 Charles Stanhope and His Microlens
2002 Dating of Spectacles by Daguerreotypes
Udupa, Alrithi
2016 A Medieval Fallacy: the Crystalline Lens in the Center of the Eye (with Christopher Leffler, Tamer
Hadi, Stephen G. Schwartz and Daniel Schwartz). Published as: Leffler CT, Hadi TM,
Udupa A, Schwartz SG, Schwartz D. A medieval fallacy: the crystalline lens in the center of the
eye. Clinical Ophthalmology 2016; 10:649-62. PMID 27114699
van Alfen, Peter
2019 Samuel Mackenzie Elliot: New York City Oculist P*
Van de Velde, Frans J.
2017 The Legacy of Dr. Charles L. Schepens at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
Vekerdy, Lilla
2010 Classics of Ophthalmology and Optics in Two Famous Rare Book Collections
2012 Georg Bartisch and His “Augendienst”
Vogel, Wolfgang H.
2010 Christoph Scheiner – Jesuit Priest and Natural Philosopher
von Graefe, Hanns-Albrecht
2015 "Thoughts regarding my Great Grandfather": Albrecht von Graefe
Wan, Eric
2024 Margaret Brand, MBBS: A Pioneer for the Prevention of Blindness in Leprosy (with Elizabeth Schexnyder and Alice “Wendy” Gasch)
Warwar, Ronald E.
2019 Leonhard Euler: The Mysterious Oculopathy of a Mathematical Genius P* (with John D. Bullock
and H. Bradford Hawley)
Welch, Robert (deceased, 2021)
1996 Samuel Theobold, M.D.: Pre Wilmer Ophthalmology at the Johns Hopkins Hospital
1999 Julian John Chisolm, M.D.: Confederate Surgeon, Teacher, and Ophthalmologist
2003 The Artistry of Annette Smith Burgess, Max Brodel’s Student and William Holland Wilmer’s
Illustrator: An Ophthalmological Gem
Whitfield, Daniel
2023 An Overview of Eye Surgeons Knighted by the British Monarch (with Robert Enzenauer)
Wilkinson, Charles P. (Pat)
2018 Was Hypophysectomy a Useful Therapy for Advanced Diabetic Retinopathy? P*
2019 The Expansion of Clinical Syndromes as Emphasized by the Story of the Urrets-Zavalia (U-Z)
Syndrome P*
2021 Samuel Sharp and His Contribution to Early Cataract Surgery
Williams, David L.
2010 Casey Wood – Ophthalmological and Ornithological Polymath
2010 A Brief History of Comparative Ophthalmology
Winstanley, John
2000 Dr. Williams Briggs, M.D. 1650-1704
Winter, Frank (deceased)
1988 The History of Ophthalmology in Sub-Saharan Africa
1989 “It’s A Small World”
1991 Ophthalmology in Botswana
1992 Ophthalmology in Ghana
Xu, Christine
2024 A Story of Seeing and Hearing from Bach to Stevie Wonder
Yu, Soojie
2005 Arnold Sorsby, MD -- 20th Century Clinician-Scientist (with Sayoko E. Moroi) P*
Zbigniew, Zagorski
2011 Tadeusz Krwawicz and the Discovery of Cryoextraction of Cataract
Zeyen, Thierry
2023 Ophthalmology in Stamps: From Ancient Times to the Present (with Frances Meier-Gibbons) P*
Zhao, Jialiang
2013 The Establishment of the Ophthalmology Museum of China
Zimmerman, Lorenz (deceased, 2013)
1994 William Thompson and J.J. Woodward
1997 Memorial to Frederick C. Blodi
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