INDEX

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A B C D E F G H I J K L M

N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A

Abercrombie, Sir Ralph, 6

Adams, James, 146

his loss of sight, 163

Adams, Sir William, 1, 22, 28

at Exeter, 29

monetary grant to, and change of name, 30

Airy, the Astronomer Royal, 115, 212

Alexander, Charles, 15, 16

Amasis, King of Egypt, 43

Anæsthesia, general, 82

local, 165

Anatomy of the human eye, 94

Anderson, Mrs. Garrett, 179

Anderson, Dr. James, 167

Ansley, Alderman, 39

Antiseptics in ophthalmology, 154

Arlt, of Vienna, 96, 114

Artificial eyes, 86

Artificial pupil, operations for, 89–91

Aseptic surgery, 187

Asthenopia, 114

Astigmatism, 114

Avebury, Lord, 135, 217

Avicenna, 89

B

Babbage, Charles, his ophthalmoscope, 102, 127

Bacteriology, 202

Bader, Charles, 95

appointed curator, 110, 122, 138

Bancroft, Sir Squire, 182

Barth, Joseph, of Vienna, 44

Battley, Richard, early life, 3, 6, 11

appointed secretary, 14, 30, 46

and materia medica, 55–57, 59, 71

death of, 79, 220

Bedell, hospitals surveyor, 172, 215

Beer, Professor, of Vienna, 44

Belladonna, 1, 19, 23

Bennett, Dr. Hughes, 164

Bethlehem, Royal Hospital, 52

its burial ground, 132

Bircham, Francis William, 66, 78, 220

Bircham and Co., solicitors to the Hospital, 66

Blomberg, Rev. Dr., 67, 68

Blood, withdrawal of, 40–41

Boerhaave, of Leyden, 44

Bonnet, of France, 86

Bovell, J. Roach, 72

Bowman, Sir William, candidature, 75

employment of chloroform, 83

operation on lacrymal passages, 88, 120

operation for artificial pupil, 89–91

meeting with Graefe and Donders, 93–95

iridectomy for glaucoma, 96–97, 112

retirement from Hospital, 143–144

later life, 145–146

and antiseptics, 155, 159, 161

Boycott, Miss, 143

Bradford, of Boston, U.S.A., 185

Brailey, W. A. , curator, 141, 142

Brass, Robert, architect, 134

Bruecke, 95, 112

Buller, Frank, 142

C

Calabar bean, 131

Cambridge, H.R.H. Duke of, 108, 182

Cataract, congenital, 11, 19–24, 27, 60, 62, 88

after-treatment, 153, 156

Cazenove, Philip, 137, 149

Charnley, W., 159

Charter, granting of, 171

Charterhouse Square, 14, 48

Chloroform, 84–85

Churchill, John, 77, 79

City Companies, donations, from, 182

City Road site, 172

Clark, Sarah, 15

Clinical assistants, institution of, 109

Coats, George, 9, 10, 219

Cocaine, 164

Colkett, Miss Jane Louisa, 6

Collins, E. Treacher, 179, 182, 218

Conjunctiva, inflammation of,

in infants, 22

Conradi, 20, 27

Consulting surgeons, duties of, 144–145

Cooper, Sir Astley, connection with Saunders, 2–8

suggestion for a special institution, 11, 13

description of, by Travers, 33, 38

his pupils and relatives, 59, 75

Cooper, Samuel, 45

Cooper, White, 84, 127

Cork Street, Infirmary in, 15

Cotton, William, 108, 135, 217

Couper, John, 109

appointed assistant-surgeon, 134, 136

word picture of, 157–158

his ophthalmoscope, 158–159, 179, 213, 218

Cramer, 112

Crimean War, 104, 125, 197

Critchett, Sir Anderson, 97, 146

Critchett, George, 75, 85

and excision of the eyeball, 86

and operation for squint, 87

and operation for artificial pupil, 89–91

for glaucoma, 96–97, 108, 134

and duties of consulting surgeons, 143–145

on Poor Law schools, 140–141, 146, 218

Cuignet, 159

Cumming, William, 100, 101, 102

Curie, Madame, 212

Curling, F. A. , 78, 220

Cyrus, King of Persia, 43

D

Dalrymple, John, secretary to academy, 58

assistant surgeon, 64, 73, 74

early training 75–76

atlas of pathology of the eye, 77–78, 81, 118, 218

Dalrymple, Robert Francis, 78, 220

Dalrymple, William, 75–76

Davidson, H., 182, 191

Davidson, Sir James Mackenzie, 186, 187, 211, 219

Daviel, 19

Dean, appointment of, 201

Delafield, Dr. Edward, 35, 38

Desmarres, of Paris, 96

Devis, portrait of Saunders by, 32

Diet, 41

Diploma of Ophthalmology, 201

Dispensary for diseases of the eye and ear proposed, 12

Dodson, Mrs., 80

Donders, Franz Cornelius, first meeting with Graefe and Bowman, 92–94, 95, 96, 99

on Helmholtz, 103

and anomalies of refraction and accommodation, 112–114, 145, 147, 211

Doublet, Thomas, 116

E

Ear, anatomy of, 17

Earle, Henry, 45

East India Company, 34, 36

Egerton, C. J. , 37

Egyptian ophthalmia, 6, 29

Ehrlich, 213

Eldon Street, negotiations regarding site in, 169–171

Electro-magnets, 185

Ether, 82

Excision of the eyeball, 85–86

Exeter Eye Infirmary, 29

F

Farre, Dr. Arthur, 106

Farre, Dr. Frederick J., 60, 70, 72, 73, 75, 106, 215

Farre, Dr. John Richard, early life, 3

consulting physician, 14, 24

edits Saunders’ writings, 26–28, 38, 45, 53

courses of instruction, 54–56

and Saunderian Institution, 56–57

attacks on, in Lancet, 59–61

his journal, 71

his portrait, 72–73 74, 75, 81, 106, 215, 217

Finsbury, neighbourhood of, 161

Fisher, J. Herbert, 200, 218

Fitzwilliam, Earl, 69, 108, 215

Fixation forceps, 126

Flemming, Percy, 199, 218

Forbes, Litton, 159

Forster, 129

France, Mr., 126

Fraser, Dr. Thomas R., 131

G

Gamgee, J. S. , 106

General hospitals, ophthalmic departments in, 126, 135

Gibson, Benjamin, 28, 60, 88

Gill, Rev. T. , 51, 55, 56

Glaucoma, operations for and treatment of, 91–93, 126, 141–142

Gordon, Charles, 149, 180, 215

Governors, privileges of, 107

Graefe, A. von, operation for glaucoma, 91

meeting with Bowman and Donders, 93–94, 103, 127

and perimetry, 129

death of, 141

and latent squints, 201

Grant, Roger, 10

Greek writers, 43

Green, 27, 59

Gunn, Marcus, 160, 203, 218

Guthrie, 15

H

Haab, of Zurich, 187

Harkness, 109

Harnet, Miss, 143, 165

Hawes, Alfred, 116

Hawes, William, 116

Helmholtz, Professor von, 99, 103, 211

Herbert, Sydney, 105

Herodotus, 43

Hey, 23

Hill, John, 1, 8, 29

Hirschberg, of Berlin, 185

Hogg, E., 181

Horner, Professor, of Zurich, 155

Hulke, John Whitaker, 82, 85, 106, 109

microscopical and scientific work, 111, 112

career, 124–125

and the perimeter, 129, 135, 147, 177, 218

Hutchinson, Sir Jonathan, 109, 112

work on inherited syphilis, 122–123, 130

on tobacco amaurosis, 148–149 151, 159, 218

Hypermetropia, 113

I

Inquiry officer, 179

Iriddesis, 90–91

Iris, essay on inflammation of, 19

J

Jackson, Dr. Hughlings, 109, 130, 205

Jacksonian Prize Essay, for 1859, 111

for 1878, 142

Jaeger, Edward von, 117, 160

Janin, 44

Jeafferson, 37

Jones, Wharton, 102, 115, 127

Journal of Morbid Anatomy, etc., 71

Jussieu, Joseph de, 164

K

Kemp, William, 174

Kensington, Henry, 14

Kent, the Duchess of, 67, 68

Kepler, 114

King Edward VII., 208

King Edward’s Hospital Fund, 195, 214

King George I., oculist to, 10

King George II., oculist to, 10

King George III., oculist to, 11, 15

King William IV., oculist to, 31

Koller, Karl, 164

L

Ladies’ Working Guild, 197–198

Lancet, 46, 56, 58, 59, 202

Lander, the hospitals surveyor, 170, 172

Lang, William, 164, 204, 218

Laquer, 131

Lawford, J. B. , 162, 177, 218

Lawrence, Sir William, treatment of eye diseases at general hospitals, 7, 33, 37

the withdrawal of blood, 40–41

history of ophthalmology, 43–44

estimates of, 44

and venereal diseases of the eye, 45–46, 54, 55

and Lancet, 58–59, 61

influence of one eye on the other, 86

obstruction of tear duct, 88, 114, 123, 151, 209, 218

Lawson, Sir Arnold, 200, 219

Lawson, George, 109

his career, 124, 125, 157

treatment of out-patients, 177, 218

Leber, Professor, 139

Leeches, 41

Lenses, system of numbering, 116

Library, 72

Lighting of new Hospital, 184

Lister, Joseph, 152

Lister, Sir William T., 206, 219

Liston, Robert, 82

Little Portland Street, Infirmary in, 31

Livingstone, 98

Lubbock, Sir John, 145, 170, 191, 217

Lyell, Robert, 150, 218

M

MacCallan, A. F. , 187

Macgregor, Patrick, 6

McHardy, Malcolm, 185

McKenzie, H. V. , 187

Mackenzie, of Glasgow, 82, 126

Mackenzie, Sir Stephen, 160, 215

McKeown, of Belfast, 185

Mackmurdo, Gilbert, 64, 73, 74, 79, 106, 218

Mackmurdo, H. H. , 81, 218

Maddox, of Bournemouth, 201

Madras Eye Infirmary, 37

Magnet operations, 125, 187

Maitre-Jan, 44

Mansion House, sale at, 64

Marshall, C. D. , 156, 205, 219

Martin, Dr. Robert, 106, 129, 160, 215

Massachusetts Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary, 36

Medical Council, formation of, 108–109

Medical-legal observations, 120

Mellish, William, 47, 49, 64, 68, 69, 215

Milles, W. Jennings, 142

Missionaries, admitted to study at Hospital, 98

Mogford, J., 138, 220

Moorfields, 48–53

“Moorfields Club,” 161

Morax-Axenfeld bacillus, 163

Morton, A. Stanford, after-treatment of cataract operations, 153, 156, 177

his ophthalmoscopic drawings, 178, 218

Muscles of eye, paralytic affections of, 127

Myopia, 114

N

Nagel, 116

Nettleship, Edward, 139

appointed curator, 140, 148, 150, 151

his scientific work, 180, 205, 210, 218

Newman, Sir George, 206

Newstead, Robert J., 138, 181, 220

New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, 35

Nightingale, Miss Florence, 105, 134–153

Nunn, T. N. , 81

Nurses, Queen Victoria’s Jubilee Institute of, 201

Nursing, changes in, 165, 166

Nursing, School of, 200

O

O’Ferrall, of Dublin, 86

Ophthalmological Society, 145, 149, 161

Ophthalmoscope, discovery of, 99

Osler, Sir William, 142

P

Paget, Sir James, 44

Palmerston, Lord, 30

Parsons, Sir John, 206, 219

Pasteur, 161, 212

Pay beds, report on, 214

Pearson, Karl, 180

Peel, Mrs., 165

Peerless Pool, 174–175

Peerless Street, 173

Peninsular War, 39

Perimetry, 129

Periscope, 128, 148, 149

Pharmacopœia, 72

Phillips, T., 199

Phillips, Thomas, R.A., 72, 73

Price, Sir Charles, 15, 21, 39, 47, 215

Price, Ralph, 61, 215

Prichard, of Bristol, 87

Prince and Princess of Wales, 181, 208

Prince of Wales’ Hospital fund, 195

Poor Law children and ophthalmia, 140, 141

Q

Queen Alexandra, 208

Queen Anne, oculist to, 10

Queen Victoria, 39, 46, 69, 177, 207

R

Railway termini, 132, 133

Rating and Valuation Bill, 194

Rating of new Hospital, 193, 194

Rawson, Sir William, 30

Read, Sir William, 9, 10

Reports, Ophthalmic Hospital, 119

colour of paper in, 127

Retinal arteries, changes in, 203

Retinoscopy, 159

Reynolds, Dr. Edward, 35

Rheumatic affections of the eyes, 204

Richardson, R., 37

Robertson, Miss Ada, 180

Robertson, Dr. Argyll, 131

Rodgers, Dr. J. Kearney, 35

Roman Emperors, 43

Röntgen, Professor, 186

Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital, 15

S

St. Ives, 44

Sambrooke, F. G. , 117, 137, 138, 217

Saunders, John Cunningham, early life, 1

association with Astley Cooper, 2–6, 11

proposal to start dispensary, 11–14, 16

and diseases of the ear, 17–19

operation for congenital cataract, 19–24

death of, 25, 26, 28, 29, 32, 49, 57, 60, 81, 118, 218

Saunderian Institution, 56, 57, 70

Saunders, Mrs., 26

Savory, Sir William, 44

Scarpa, 23, 28

Schmidt, 44

School-children, sight-testing of, 206, 207

School of Ophthalmology, opening of, 34

Schweizer, 110

Scott, John, 61; monograph on cataract, 62, 64

obituary notice, 65; 74, 75, 77, 81, 218

Sedgwick, Harry, 47

trust fund, 117, 118, 196, 215

Shepherdess Walk, 175, 176

Silcock, A. Quarry, 167, 206, 218

Simpson, Sir Janies, 82

Smee, Alfred, 116, 133

Smirke, Sir Robert, 49, 51, 53, 215

Smith, Priestley, 139, 142

Snell, of Sheffield, 185

Snellen, of Utrecht, 117

Soemerring, 44

South African War, 193, 208

Spicer, W. T. Holmes, 180, 201, 218

Squint, operation for, 87

Squints, latent, 201

Stanley, Edward, 45

Stephenson, Sydney, 141

Stevens, of New York, 201

Stevenson, John, 22, 28, 30, 31, 33

Streatfield, J. F. , 106; his career, 107–108

editor of the Reports, 119, 125, 127, 135, 136

gigantic model of eye, 166, 218

T

Tarsus, excision of, 22, 29

Tay, Waren, 146, 148, 151, 162, 206, 218

Taylor, “Chevalier,” 10

Taylor, Dr. James, 205, 218

Teale, Pridgin, jun., 88

Tear duct, operations on, 88

affections of, 152

Tobacco, amaurosis due to, 148

Travers, Benjamin, 33

early career of, 34

and East India Company, 36–37

his treatise on eye diseases, 38, 42, 59, 64, 70, 218

Travers, Benjamin, sen., 13

Tubercle of the eye, 140, 162

Tweedy, Sir John, 149, 157

career of, 202–203, 206

starts rent fund, 208, 218

Tyrrell, Frederick, 45, 48, 54

and Wakley, 58–59

description of, 62–63, 64, 65, 74, 76, 104, 114, 218

Tyrrell, John, 48, 50

Tyrrell, Timothy, 48, 50

Tyrrell, Walter, 106, 109

U

Usher, C. H. , 180

V

Venereal diseases of the eye, 45

Ventilation of new Hospital, 182–183

Vernon, Bowater, 139

Vetch, Dr., 7

Victoria, H.R.H. the Princess, 67–68

W

Wakley, Thomas, 58, 59, 60

Walton, Haynes, 82

Ware, James, 11, 20, 28, 113, 212

Wassermann, 212

Wathen, Dr., 11, 15, 31

Weber, Adolph, 131

Weekes, Henry, bust of Saunders by, 32, 118

Wells, J. Soelberg, 109

and sight-testing, 115

description of, 127–128 136, 147

his treatise on diseases of the eye, 149–150, 152, 199, 212, 218

Women become eligible as pupils and clinical assistants, 179

Wyndham, Sir Charles, 208

X

X-rays, 186

Y

York, H.R.H. the Duke of, 30, 49, 67

York Hospital, Chelsea, 29

Young, Keith, 172, 190, 215

Young, Thomas, 114

Z

Zinn, Professor, 44

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