Table of Contents

The dawning of ophthalmology - Jaques Guillemeau, Walter Bailey, William Briggs, Sir Isaac Newton, Sir William Read, John Taylor; the first ophthalmologists - Peter Kennedy, William Portfield, James Ware, John Cunningham Saunders, Sir William Adams, Georg Joseph Beer, Sebastian Guille, Wiiliam Mackenzie, Frans Cornelis Donders; the general surgeon discovers the eye - Antonio Scarpa, John Vetch, Benjamin Travers, George James Guthrie, Sir William Lawrence; ophthalmology comes to the new world - Squier Littel, John H. Dix and Alfred C. Post, Hermann Knapp and Jakob Knapp, Henry Williard Williams; elucidation of the anatomy and pathology of the eye - James Wardrop, John Dalyrample, Sir William Bowman, Adolf Alt, John Herbert Parson and E. Treacher Collins, Jonas Friedenwald; the evolution of modern ophthamology - Hermann von Helmholz, Albrecht von Grafe, Ferdinand Ritter von Arlt, Ernst Fuchs.