Atlas und Grundriss der Ophthalmoskopie und ophthalmoskopischen Diagnostik

Book Description

Munich:: J. F. Lehmann. 1895. hardcover. 1. Series: Lehmann's Medicin. Handatlanten., Band VII. 189 x 127 mm. 8vo. vi, 69, 64, [ads], 16 pp. 4 figs., 64 chromo-lithographic plates. Black- stamped green cloth, top edge red; lightly rubbed. Bookplates of Jerry F. Donin and Herbert C. Moffitt. Fine. . FIRST EDITION of this very important and highly popular work which featured a large number of chromo-lithographic plates in a handy-sized volume. This work describes the ophthalmoscope, giving measurements of myopic and hypermetropic eyes and of astigmatism, examination by the indirect method, size of the visual field, and measurement of refractions. It was translated into French and English. Otto Haab received his M.D. in 1875 at the University of Zürich, where he worked under Johann Friedrich Horner (1831-1886), succeeding him as Professor of Ophthalmology (1886-1919). Haab enriched knowledge of the pathological anatomy of the eye and made advances in surgical ophthalmology, especially the treatment of eye injuries. Haab identified the phenomenon now known as Haab's reflex (1886), and designed a powerful magnet for extracting foreign bodies from deep within the eye (1892). REFERENCES: Albert, et al, Source book of ophthalmology, 957; Gorin, History of ophthalmology, p. 209; Hirschberg, XI, 3d, p. 32; Pagel, Biographisches lexikon, col. 669; Rucker & Keys, Atlases of ophthalmoscopy.

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