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The Cogan Ophthalmic History Society provides a scholarly forum for presentation and discussion of research on the history of ophthalmology and its associated fields. Organized in memory of David Glendenning Cogan, a pioneer in the study of history of ophthalmology, the Society sponsors a yearly meeting.

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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 Snyder Lecture Series: The Discovery of the Ophthalmoscope
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
2009 From a Country Doctor’s Casebooks: Treatment of Eye Disease in Rural Wisconsin, 1841-1852

Alon, Susan

1990 For the Concupiscence of Eyes

*Alper, Melvin

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 Snyder Lecture Series: Three Pioneers in the Early History of Neuro-Radiology
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 James G. Ravin)

Apple, David J

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)
2009 Professor Soemmerring and His Magic Ring
2010 Professor Soemmerring and His Magic Ring

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

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

Baum, Jules

1999 Helena Fedukowicz: Pioneer Educator in Ocular Bacteriology

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
2007 Ophthalmology in Fin-de-Sièle Vienna
2009 The Evolutionist, Three Ophthalmologists, and the Prime Minister

*Blanchard, Donald

1992 Bartisch's Herbal Remedies
1993 Jaeger, About Glaucoma
1994 Pope John XXI, Ophthalmologist
1995 From Ebers to Jackson
1996 Voghtherr's Büchlin
1999 George Handel and His Blindness
2000 Bartisch on Theriac.
2004 Robert Louis Stevenson: Optical Engineer
2007 Snyder Lecture Series: The Ophthalmology of Hieronymus Brunschwig

Blodi, Barbara

1997 Karl Safar of Vienna: Pioneering Retinal Surgeon

Blodi, Christopher F.

2010 The Missing Link: Paul Sullivan, MD and the History of Intraocular SF6
2011 Arlt Orders His Ophthalmoscope: A Study in Provenance

Blodi, Frederick (deceased)

1988 Blindness in Mythology and Religion
1990 Ophthalmologists Suffering from Glaucoma
1991 Snyder Lecture Series: Some Famous Persons with Visual Problems

Bogdan, AJ

2005 L. Webster Fox

Bohigian, George M

1997 The Concept of the Evil Eye and Its Influence on Ophthalmology, Medicine, and Social Behavior
2000 Albert Einstein: His Life and Contributions to the Development of Lasers
2003 Symbols Deciphered
2005 Honey: The Pharaoh's Magic Eye Potion
2006 Standardization of Visual Acuity Testing in Antiquity (Before Donders, Jaeger and Snellen)
2007 “He Sees Alcor, but not the Full Moon”: The Arabian Eye Test Using Stars
2008 Ophthalmic History-New Techniques for Looking at the Past
2009 Bernard Becker “In His Own Words”-Part I “The Formative Years”
2010 Bernard Becker “In His Own Words” Part II – “The Academic Years”

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?

Caruso, Rafael

1991 Astronomy and Ophthalmology: Kepler et al
1993 Trichromatism or Color Opponent Mechanisms? A Nineteenth Century Controversy

Chavis, Pamela

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 & medicinal use of Kohl & Henna their efficacy v. side effects

Chi-Chao-Chan

2008 Eugene Chan: Pioneer of Modern Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences in China
2009 Couching for Cataract in China
2010 The First Western-Style Hospital in China (1835 – Present)

Chelnick, Judy

1989 Not Just a Pretty Face: Collecting and Exhibiting at the Smithsonian Institution

Chu, Fred

1988 Harvey Howard
1990 Edmund Cowdry - A Friend of Harvey Howard

Cogan, David (deceased)

1988 Dr. Roentgen, The Williams Brothers, and Private John Gretzer
1989 H. Muller 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

Colenbrander, August

2001 Visual Acuity Measurement in a Historical Perspective

Cronenwett, Susan

1988 Oral Histories: Bringing Life to a Museum Collection
1989 Ophthalmology: A Single Strand in the Fabric of History

Davis, Audrey

1988 The Ophthalmological Collections of the National Museum of American History

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 — Charles McCormick
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 “The Snyder Lecture Series: Apologia Pro Vita Ophthalmologica; Ophthalmology and Observation: A Life”
2011 Charles H. Beard, his encyclopedic surgical text and Chicago Life and Ophthalmology

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
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 It's Existence."

*Ferry, Andrew

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 Snyder Lecture Series: Dr. Isaac Thompson and His Celebrated Eye Water
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

Feibel, Robert M.

2009 Simon Pollak, M.D.
2010 Fred Loe, MD

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
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

*Fishman, Ronald S

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 Snyder Lecture Series: Gordon Holmes, the Cortical Retina and the Wounds of War
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
2006 Lincoln's Craniofacial Microsomia
2007 Oxygen, Prematurity, Blindness: The Early Years
2008 Marth, 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

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
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

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

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

Galst, Jay M

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
2008 The Charles Coutela Medal-Paul Richer’s Last Medallic Artwork

Gasch, Alice (Wendy)

2010 Ophthalmic Abnormalities Manifested by the Gargoyles of Washington National Cathedral
2011 William Moon and his Tactile Reading System

Gauger, Grant

1991 The Great Mind of Thomas Young
1994 Astronauts and the Accelerator: The Light Flash Phenomenon

*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 Snyder Lecture Series: Radiation and Cataracts: Cause or Cure
2003 A Talk on the Wilde Side: Sir William Wilde
2005 Argyrol and Dr. Barnes
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

Gloor, Balder, MD

Glew, William

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

Green, W. Richard

1997 Memorial to Arthur Keeney

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

Hardwig, Paul

1998 Eighteenth Century Vienna: To Mesmerize or Not?

Harper, David G

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

Hedges , Thomas Jr

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

Heitz, Robert

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
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)
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

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

Horrocks, Thomas

1997 As Far as the Eye Can See: Ophthalmology in the Historical Library at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Hurtes, Reva

1995 Edward W. D. Norton: An Ophthalmologist for All Seasons, Part II

Huxley, Matthew

1988 Two Experiences of Treatment for Significant Visual Disabilities - Together With Reflections Upon the Therapeutics Involved

Jampel, Robert S

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

Jennings, Bruce

2002 What Did Dr. Kevorkian Do Wrong?

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

Joy, Robert

1988 Teaching the History of Ophthalmology

Kalin Johnson, Cindi

1994 E.J. Curran: Historical Vignette

Kansupada, Kashyap

1995 Shushruta: Father of Indian Surgery and Ophthalmology (with Joseph Sassani)

*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
2007 Oculist to Queen Victoria
2008 Snyder Lecture Series: INSTRUMENT ANCESTRY: Genesis of the Ophthalmic Examination
2011 Congress among the Dreaming Spires

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

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.

*Klintworth, Gordon K

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 Snyder Lecture Series: Historical Aspects of Yellow the Color Associated with Cowardice
2008 The Algernon B. Reese and Joseph A.C. Wadsworth Ophthalmic Pathology Collections-In Search of a Long Term Safe Haven

Knox, David

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 Time2001 Focal Infection and Ocular Inflammation: Evolution of a Concept
2005 Pathology and Pathologists in Neuro Ophthalmology
2008 Pars Planitis: History and Evaluation of Thinking About an Ocular Inflammation Syndrome

Krizack, Joan

1988 Retrolental Fibroplasia: Experimental Research and Service at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
l989 Lizzie Maud Carvill: First Woman of Ophthalmology

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

Lawrence, Linda

1999 The Eye Disease of Christopher Columbus
2001 The Historical Saint Lucy
2006 James IV of Scotland, "Cataract King"

Laws, Edwards

1988 History of Neurosurgical Contributions to Neuro-Ophthalmology

Leavitt, Jackie

2004 The History of Neuro-ophthalmology at Mayo Clinic
2007 Historical Treatments of Demyelinating Optic Neuritis
2009 The History of CT at Mayo Clinic

Lee, John

1997 Cecil Starling O’Brien

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

Linberg, John

1997 St. John’s Ophthalmic Hospital in Jerusalem

Loewenfeld, Irene

1998 Otto Lowenstein: Neurologic and Ophthalmologic Testing Methods During His Lifetime

Manley, Donelson

2004 Sir Norman Gregg and the Rubella Virus
2005 The Historical Development of the Diagnosis of Cyclovertical Muscle Palsies
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

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

Mark, Harry H.

2008 Isaac Newman 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

*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 Snyder Lecture Series: Monet Through his Own Eyes
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

Marshall, WH

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.

Maumenee, Edward (deceased)

1991 The History of Vitamin A

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

Michael, John

1996 Ophthalmology in Ancient Assyria

Miller, Marilyn T., MD

2011 Martin Urist, MD, A Man Always A Little Out Of Step With His Profession

Moroi, Sayoko

2004 A Close Look at the History and Facts of Ginkgo Biloba and Bilberry
2005 Arnold Sorsby, MD -- 20th Century Clinician-Scientist

Muirhead, J. Fraser

2010 The Case History of an Eighteenth Century Case History

Murphy, Sean

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 Snyder Lecture Series: A Passion for Books: William Osler, Casey Wood and McGill University

*Newell, Frank (deceased)

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 Snyder Lecture Series: Origins of the National Eye Institute
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 Snyder Lecture Series: Quantitation in Ophthalmology: A Science in Evolution
2001 Lacrimal Parasympathetic Innervation: A Model for Going Astray
2004 Aviation Medicine and Ophthalmology
2005 Homonymous Hemianopsia: The Localizing Value of Incongruity
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

Noe, Adrianne

1988 William Holland Wilmer and Aviation Ophthalmology in World War I

Norton, Edward (deceased)

1992 Argyrosis-Art

O’Connor, G Richard (deceased)

O’Day, Dennis M

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

Ott, Katherine

1997 How Medicine Mirrors Society: Sympathetic Ophthalmia in the 19th Century

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

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
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

Pollen, Abraham

1988 A Tale of Two Jeffries

Raju, VK

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

*Ravin, James

1988 The Cataract Surgery of Claude Monet: Its Effect on the Impressionist Painter
1989 The Blindness of Degas: The Effect of Vision Loss on the Famous French Artist
1990 Cataract, Diabetes and Radium: The Case of Cassatt
1991 The Wanderings of a Literary Ophthalmologist: The Doyle-Houdini-Bessinet Correspondence
1992 From Von Graefe's Clinic to the Ecole des Beaux Arts: The Meteoric Career of Richard Liebreich
1993 Victoria's Secret: The Queen's Cataracts
1994 Pissaro, Dacryocystitis and the Development of Modern Lacrimal Surgery
1995 Charles Meryon: A Color Defective Artist
1996 Paul Gachet's Text, Military Ophthalmia in Europe
1997 Snyder Lecture Series: Albert Einstein and his Mentor, Max Talmey
1998 Treacher Collins and His Medical Tour of Persia
1999 The Statesman, the Artist, and the Ophthalmologist: Clemenceau, Lautrec, and Meyer
2000 Sesquicentennial of the Ophthalmoscope
2001 An English Surgeon in China: Thomas Colledge, M.D.
2002 The Sympathetic Ophthalmia of James Thurber
2003 Incidents at Shikarpur
2004 Representations of Blindness from Picasso’s Blue Period
2006 Deluis and Painters
2007 Four French Glaucomatous Artists
Glaucoma in Art (AGS Joint Session)
2008 The Blindness of George Du Mauier (1834-1896)
2009 Surgical Treatment of Astigmatism. Louis Borsch’s MD Thesis, 1990
2011 What were they thinking?

Ravin, Tracy

2006 Rosalba Carriera and Her Vision Problems

Reifler, David

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 Ophthalmologist," Accurate?
2004 Oculofacial Plastic Surgery Subspecialization Past, Present and Future
2008 Albert Ticho
2010 Howard Leslie Lieberman, MD (1922 – 2006)

*Rosenthal, J. William (deceased)

1988 Detailed Examination of Historical Artifacts
1989 Recent Acquisitions of Antique Chinese Spectacles and Cases
1990 Pince Nez
1991 A Short History of Glass1992 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 Snyder Lecture Series: Early American Spectacle Makers

Rosenwasser, George

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

Ross, Robin

1994 Pioneering Women in Ophthalmology

Rubin, Melvin L

2010 Gordon Lynn Walls (1905-1962). A Tribute and Personal Memoir

Saine, Patrick J

2002 Landmarks in the Development of Fluorescein Angiography
2004 Retinal Photography Atlases of the 20th Century
2005 The Cogan Society Website

Sanders, Michael

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
2009 Anne Sullivan Macy: Blind Teacher

Savage-Smith, Emilie

1988 The Couching and Removal of Cataracts in Medieval Islam

Schuman, Joel S.

2009 Reflections on OCT
2010 The Evolution of Retinal Nutrition

Schwab, Ivan

2008 Phylogeny of the Cornea

Schlossman, Abraham

2000 Professor A. Franceschetti – Great Ophthalmologist and Humanitarian

Sieving, Pamela C

2005 Jorge Luis Borges: A Man of Metaphors and Myopia
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

*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 Snyder Lecture Series: When the Cure is Worse than the Disease: A Brief History of Ocular Immunopathology
2006 Ocular Immunology 1905-1914: The Bandwagon Effect
2008 Sociological Aspects of Subdiscipline Formation: Ocular Immunopathology

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

Spain-Ward, Patricia

1989 The Chicago Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary: Prototype of A Regional Medical Center

*Spencer, William

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 Snyder Lecture Series: The Origin and Development of San Francisco Academic Ophthalmology
2007 The Axenfeld-Rieger Anomaly in Retrospect

Spivey, Bruce

1998 Socialization of Ophthalmology as a Specialty
1999 Socialization/Corporate Evolution of Ophthalmology: The Future?

*Tasman, William

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 Implant2008 Familial Exudative Vitreoretinopathy (FEVR), 1968-2008
2009 Snyder Lecture Series: Meyer Schwickerath

Taylor, David

2010 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 Snyder Lecture Series: The Growth of American Neuro-Ophthalmology
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
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

Toth, Cynthia A

2005 A History of Vitrectomy Surgery by Robert Machemer

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

Vekerdy, Lilla

2010 Classics of Ophthalmology and Optics in Two Famous Rare Book Collections

Vogel, Wolfgang H.

2010 Christoph Scheiner – Jesuit Priest and Natural Philosopher

Welch, Robert

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

Williams, David L.

2010 Casey Wood – Ophthalmological and Ornithological Polymath
2010 A Brief History of Comparative Ophthalmology

Williams, David - Special Guest Speaker

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

Zbigniew, Zagorski

2011 Tadeusz Krwawicz and the discovery of cryoextraction of catarct.

Zimmerman, Lorenz

1994 William Thompson and J.J. Woodward
1997 Memorial to Frederick C. Blodi

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