Albrecht Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst von Gräfe was a #German #Eye #surgeon, who is regarded as a #fou…
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Albrecht Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst von Gräfe was a #German #Eye #surgeon, who is regarded as a #founder of #scientific #opthalmology.
He was also an #authority in diseases of the #nerve and #brain.
He diagnosed sudden #visual loss due to #retinal artery #embolism, optic #retinitis and was one of the first to treat #glaucoma successfully.
He described a large number of new findings, among them stase #papillas in #braintumors, retardation of the #eyelid in Basedow's disease and introduced a new operation for #cataract - #iridictomy.
In his short career (he died at age 42), von Gräfe performed more than 10,000 eye #operations, and was undoubtedly the most important #ophthalmologist of the 19th century.
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