COGAN OPHTHALMIC HISTORY SOCIETY
Snyder Lectures
1991-2010

THE SNYDER LECTURE

In 1991, David G. Cogan inaugurated the Snyder Lecture to honor Charles L. Snyder, who for many years was the librarian at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. Snyder's interest in ophthalmic history had led to the publication of a series of essays as the "Our Ophthalmic Heritage" section of the ARCHIVES while Cogan was its editor. Many of Snyder's essays were collected in book form in 1967. (Snyder CL. Our Ophthalmic Heritage. Boston, Mass: Little Brown & Co; 1967.)

Norman B. Medow, M.D.

• 2011 Physicians – Poisons – Pupils and a Bella Donna. The Evolution of Forensics

Eliasoph, Ira

• 2010 Ophthalmology and Observation: A Life "Apologia pro Vita Ophthalmologica"

Tasman, William

• 2009 Meyer-Schwickerath

Keeler, Richard

• 2008 Instrument Ancestry: Genesis of the Ophthalmic Examination

Blanchard, Donald

• 2007 Ophthalmology of Hieronymus Brunschwig

Klintworth, Gordon K

• 2006 Historical Aspects of Yellow the Color Associated with Cowardice

Silverstein, Arthur M

• 2005 When the Cure is Worse than the Disease: A Brief History of Ocular Immunopathology

Marmor, Michael F

• 2004 Monet through his Own Eyes

Spencer, William

• 2003 The Origin and Development of San Francisco Academic Ophthalmology

Rosenthal, J William (deceased)

• 2002 Early American Spectacle Makers

Murphy, Sean

• 2001 A Passion for Books: William Osler, Casey Wood and McGill University

Newman, Steven A

• 2000 Quantitation in Ophthalmology: A Science in Evolution

Gittinger, John

• 1999 Radiation and Cataracts: Cause or Cure

Alper, Melvin

• 1998 Three Pioneers in the Early History of Neuro-Radiology

Ravin, James

• 1997 Albert Einstein and his Mentor, Max Talmey

Fishman, Ronald

• 1996 Gordon Holmes, the Cortical Retina and the Wounds of War

Thompson, H Stanley

• 1995 The Growth of American Neuro-Ophthalmology

Newell, Frank (deceased)

• 1994 Origins of the National Eye Institute

Ferry, Andrew

• 1993 Dr. Isaac Thompson and His Celebrated Eye Water

Albert, Daniel

• 1992 The Discovery of the Ophthalmoscope

Blodi, Frederick (deceased)

• 1991 Some Famous Persons with Visual Problems

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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.