History of Ophthalmology

Prominent ophthalmologists who suffered from acute glaucoma.- Vision and cognition in the natural philosophy of Albert the Great (Albertus Magnus).- Further studies by Christoph Scheiner concerning the optics of the eye.- On the invention of the ophthalmoscope.- D. B. Kagenaar and the ophthalmometer by Javal-Schiøtz.- A contribution to the history of spectacles in Croatia.- Pissarro, dacryocystitis, and the development of modern lacrimal surgery.- Didymus the Blind: An unknown precursor of Louis Braille and Helen Keller.- Further ophthalmological information on Byzantine chroniclers and historians.